Category: History - Modern (1750+)
FIN-DE-SIÈCLE 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. Thi...
FIN-DE-SIÈCLE 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 tha...
2. CHAPTER II.LET us follow in the train frequenting the palaces of European capitals, the highways of fashionable watering-places, the receptions of the rich, and observe the figures of whic...
3. CHAPTER III.THE manifestations described in the preceding chapter must be patent enough to everyone, be he never so narrow a Philistine. The Philistine, however, regards them as a passing f...
4. CHAPTER IV.WE have recognised the effect of diseases in these _fin-de-siècle_ literary and artistic tendencies and fashions, as well as in the susceptibility of the public with regard to t...
5. CHAPTER I.WE have already learnt to see in mysticism a principal characteristic of degeneration. It follows so generally in the train of the latter, that there is scarcely a case of degen...
6. CHAPTER II.MYSTICISM is the habitual condition of the human race, and in no way an eccentric disposition of mind. A strong brain which works out every presentation to its full clearness--a...
7. CHAPTER III.A SIMILAR phenomenon to that which we observed in the case of the pre-Raphaelites is afforded by the French Symbolists. We see a number of young men assemble for the purpose of...
8. CHAPTER IV.COUNT LEO TOLSTOI has become in the last few years one of the best-known, and apparently, also, of the most widely-read authors in the world. Every one of his words awakens an e...
9. CHAPTER V.WE have seen in a previous chapter that the whole mystic movement of the period has its roots in romanticism, and hence originally emanates from Germany. In England German roman...
10. CHAPTER VI.THE artistic and poetic forms of mysticism, which we have studied hitherto, might perhaps inspire doubts in superficial or insufficiently instructed minds as to their origin in...
11. CHAPTER I.HOWEVER dissimilar such individualities as Wagner and Tolstoi, Rossetti and Verlaine, may at first sight appear, we have, nevertheless, encountered in all of them certain common...
12. CHAPTER II.IT has become the custom to designate the French Parnassians a school, but those who are comprised under this denomination have always refused to allow themselves to be included...
13. CHAPTER III.AS on the death of Alexander the Great his generals fell on the conqueror’s empire, and each one seized a portion of land, so did the imitators that Baudelaire numbered among hi...
14. CHAPTER IV.IN the course of the last two centuries the whole civilized world has, with greater or less unanimity, repeatedly recognised a sort of intellectual royalty in some contemporary,...
15. CHAPTER V.AS in Ibsen ego-mania has found its poet, so in Nietzsche it has found its philosopher. The deification of filth by the Parnassians with ink, paint, and clay; the censing among...
16. CHAPTER I.IT was necessary to treat in detail the two forms of degeneracy in literature and art hitherto examined, _i.e._, mysticism and ego-mania, inasmuch as their career of development...
17. CHAPTER II.THIS chapter is not, properly, within the scope of this book. It must not be forgotten that I did not wish to write a history of literature, nor to indulge in current æsthetic c...
18. CHAPTER I.OUR long and sorrowful wandering through the hospital--for as such we have recognised, if not all civilized humanity, at all events the upper stratum of the population of large...
19. CHAPTER II.No one, I hope, will think me childish enough to imagine that I can bring degenerates to reason by incontrovertibly and convincingly demonstrating to them the derangement of the...
20. part ii., pp. 383-407, etc.21. part i., pp. 420-423; the confinement of the little Princess, part ii.,[184] It is not my object, in a book intended primarily for the general educated reader, to dwell on this delicate subject. Anyone wishing to be instructed more closely in the m...