 | Max Simon Nordau - 1895 - 604 páginas
...degenerate tendencies. Such is the treatment of the disease of the age which I hold to be efficacious : Characterization of the leading degenerates as mentally...cautioning the public against the lies of these parasites. We in particular, who have made it our life's task to combat antiquated superstition, to spread enlightenment,... | |
 | George Cotkin - 2004 - 208 páginas
...rationalist, Nordau was not without hope. Diagnosis of the disease might lead to its cure and control: "Characterization of the leading degenerates as mentally...the public against the lies of these parasites."" But Nordau's worst fears would only be realized by the work of Stephen Crane, America's most talented... | |
 | Richard Davenport-Hines, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines - 2003 - 596 páginas
...'ever tenser self-restraint'. His prescribed 'treatment' for 'the diseases of the age' was ruthless: 'characterization of the leading degenerates as mentally...society; cautioning the public against the lies of these parasites'.61 Nordau's model of hygienic policing •was like a paradigm for the late-twentieth-century... | |
 | Robert S. Wistrich - 1976 - 420 páginas
...spirits would be prevented from corruption by these decadent trends. Thus, he advocated the pitiless "characterization of the leading degenerates as mentally...society; cautioning the public against the lies of these parasites."35 Nordau's war against degeneracy was, in his own eyes at least, a struggle of scientific... | |
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Characterization of the leading degenerates as mentally diseased ; unmasking and stigmatizing of their imitators as enemies to society ; cautioning the public against the lies of these parasites. 