Faces of Degeneration
Subtitle: A European Disorder, c. 18481918 (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 30, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780521457538
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; World - General; Intellectual History; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; England; Italy; History & Theory - General; Military - General; Degeneration - History - 19th century; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: "The plan for the ending of Bouvard and Pecuchet, the novel left unfinished by Flaubert on his death in 1880, includes that passage counterposing the evidence for and against 'progress', or rather, setting, each up as the object of laughter and decision."