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Decadent Subjects:

The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780801867408
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Charles Bernheimer, Edited by T. Jefferson Kline, Edited by Naomi Schor
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Local release date: 13/09/2002
Format: Hardback 248 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Literature & literary studies [D]Literary studies: general [DSB]

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Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a ''stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds.'' In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable, rarely understood term. Decadent Subjects is a coherent and moving picture of fin de siècle decadence. Mature, ironic, iconoclastic, and thoughtful, this remarkable collection of essays shows the contradictions of the phenomenon, which is both a condition and a state of mind. In seeking to show why people have failed to give a satisfactory account of the term decadence, Bernheimer argues that we often mistakenly take decadence to represent something concrete, that we see as some sort of agent. His salutary response is to return to those authors and artists whose work constitutes the topos of decadence, rereading key late nineteenth-century authors such as Nietzsche, Zola, Hardy, Wilde, Moreau, and Freud to rediscover the very dynamics of the decadent. Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de siècle including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome, Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence, all the more important as we emerge from our own fin de siècle.

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Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe

Editors' Preface

Introduction

Nietzsche's Decadence Philosophy

Flaubert's Salambo: History in Decadence

Decadent Naturalism/Naturalist Decadence

Visions of Salome

Decadent Diagnostics

Freud's Decadence

Appendix: Outline of Freud's Decadence

""An excellent book by a well-known authority in the areas of European literature, culture, and psychoanalysis.""

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The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe