"Degeneration is one of the most important documents of the fin de siecle, the years between the 1880s and 1900 when the robust views of the nineteenth century clashed with the heightened sensibilities of a searching and disillusioned generation. . . . It] is a mirror of conflicting attitudes which are, in fact, contemporary with our present cultural dilemmas. But culture itself always reflects the state of society. Max Nordau presents us with a searchlight whose beams reflect the kind of world we] have made for ourselves.]"-George L. Mosse in his introduction to the 1968 edition. Max...

ZIONISM Among the persons of the educated classes who follow with any attention all the more important movements of the times, it would now be difficult to find one to whom the word "Zionism" is quite unknown. People are generally aware that it describes an idea and a movement that in the last years has found numerous adherents among the Jews of all countries, but especially among those of the East. Comparatively few, however, both among the Gentiles and the Jews themselves, have a perfectly clear notion of the aims and ways of Zionism; the Gentiles, because they do not care sufficiently for...

Als der judische Arzt und Schriftsteller Max Nordau 1892/93 seine Streitschrift "Entartung" publizierte, waren das Wort und die mit ihm bezeichneten Phanomene noch nicht durch die eliminatorischen Manahmen der Nationalsozialisten belastet. Das Werk gilt heute als Schlusselwerk fur das Verstandnis der Pathologisierung der kunstlerischen Moderne. Karin Tebben stellt Nordaus Werk in seinen kulturhistorischen Zusammenhang und erlautert die Kontexte.

Max Nordau (1849 - 1923) war Arzt, Politiker und Schriftsteller - kein Historiker. Dies spiegelt sich auch in seinem hier vorliegenden Werk Der Sinn der Geschichte" wider. Nordau begibt sich bei seiner Sinnsuche auf eine Metaebene. Er spricht sich fur eine deutliche Trennung von Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung aus und bezieht geschichtsphilosophische Aspekte genauso mit ein wie er sich auf einen Exkurs uber psychologische Voraussetzungen von Geschichte begibt. Hierzu bedient er sich immer wieder medizinischer Begrifflichkeiten und ubertragt diese auf die Geschichte. Viele von Nordaus...

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2014 Reprint of 1895 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "'Degeneration' is one of the most important documents of the fin de siecle, the years between the 1880s and 1900 when the robust views of the nineteenth century clashed with the heightened sensibilities of a searching and disillusioned generation."--George L. Mosse. In "Degeneration" Max Nordau attacks so-called degenerate art and comments on the effects of a range of social phenomena of the period, such as rapid urbanization and its perceived effects on the human body....

Alles vergängliche ist stets ein Gleichnis. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ein Krankenroman von Max Nordau