Degeneration

Fin-de-si cle is a name covering both what is characteristic of many modern phenomena, and also the underlying mood which in them finds expression. Experience has long shown that an idea usually derives its designation from the language of the nation which first formed it. This, indeed, is a law of constant application when historians of manners and customs inquire into language, for the purpose of obtaining some notion, through the origins of some verbal root, respecting the home of the earliest inventions and the line of evolution in different human races. Fin-de-si cle is French, for it was in France that the mental state so entitled was first consciously realized. The word has flown from one hemisphere to the other, and found its way into all civilized languages.

Author: Max Simon Nordau
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 07/01/2016
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.42d
ISBN13: 9781530963195
ISBN10: 1530963192
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics

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