Degenerate moderns
Subtitle: modernity as rationalized sexual misbehavior
By: E. Michael Jones.
Publisher: Ignatius
Published: 1993
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 20th century; Intellectuals -- Sexual behavior; Sexual ethics -- History -- 20th century; Degeneration
Description: In this groundbreaking new book, Jones shows how some of the major determining leaders in modern thought and culture have rationalized their own immoral behavior and projected it onto a universal canvas. The main thesis of this book is that, in the intellectual life, there are only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker conforms desire to truth or he conforms truth to desire. In the last one hundred years, the western cultural elite embarked upon a project which entailed the reversal of the values of the intellectual life so that truth would be subjected to desire as the final criterion of intellectual value. In looking at recent biographies of such major moderns as Freud, Kinsey, Keynes, Margaret Mead, Picasso, and others, there is a remarkable similarity between their lives and thought. After becoming involved in sexual license early on, they invariably chose an ideology or art form which subordinated reality to the exigencies of their sexual misbehavior.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.