Degeneration the Dark Side of Progress / / Sander L. Gilman, J. Edward Chamberlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Chamberlin, J. Edward,; Gilman, Sander L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Carlson, Eric T.,; Chamberlin, J. Edward,; Boon, James A.,; Eksteins, Modris,; Stepan, Nancy,; Bade, Patrick,; Nye, Robert A.,; Gilman, Sander L.,; Siegel, Sandra,; Williams, Simon,; Gilman, Stuart C.,; Leiss, William,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1985]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 1985
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

A collection of essays examining degeneration from an historical view as well as through social and natural sciences and the arts.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Degeneration: An Introduction
• 1. History and Degeneration: Of Birds and Cages
• 2. Anthropology and Degeneration: Birds, Words, and Orangutans
• 3. Sociology and Degeneration: The Irony of Progress
• 4. Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and Degeneration: From a Theory of Race to a Race to Theory
• 5. Biology and Degeneration: Races and Proper Places
• 6. Medicine and Degeneration: Theory and Praxis
• 7. Technology and Degeneration: The Sublime Machine
• 8. Political Theory and Degeneration: From Left to Right, From up to down
• 9. Literature and Degeneration: The Representation of "Decadence"
• 10. Art and Degeneration: Visual Icons of Corruption
• 11. Theater and Degeneration: Subversion and Sexuality
• 12. Images of Degeneration: Turnings and Transformations
• Degeneration: Conclusion
• Index