In Modernism and Eugenics, Donald Childs shows how Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement, and adapted this scientific discourse to the language and purposes of the modern imagination. Childs traces the impact of the euge…
Biographical note: Vinod Acharya, Seattle University, USA. The author presents a new existential interpretation of Nietzsche. He argues that Nietzsche's approach, especially in his mature works, is to make the typical existential position foundational, and then to develop to th…
Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social r…
Möglicherweise wäre die Soziologie als Fach gar nicht etabliert worden, wenn sich mit der massiven Veränderung der Lebens- und Produktionsbedingungen, ihrer Ambivalenz von technischem Fortschritt und Verelendung Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht auch ein allgemeines Unbehagen bre…
Möglicherweise wäre die Soziologie als Fach gar nicht etabliert worden, wenn sich mit der massiven Veränderung der Lebens- und Produktionsbedingungen, ihrer Ambivalenz von technischem Fortschritt und Verelendung Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht auch ein allgemeines Unbehagen bre…
"Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s through the 1950s, his preoccupations to "find literature in the pornography, or beneath the pornography," his battles with the Lord Chamberla…
"Gontarski approaches Beckett from multiple viewpoints: from his running afoul of the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts in the 1930s through the 1950s, his preoccupations to "find literature in the pornography, or beneath the pornography," his battles with the Lord Chamberla…
