Modernism and eugenics
By: Marius Turda.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780230230835
Subjects: Eugenics -- Europe -- History; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Europe -- History
Description: Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincingly demonstrates that between 1870 and 1940 eugenicists were not only preoccupied with rescuing the individual from the anomie of modernity but equally championed a glorious racial destiny for the nation.