A degenerate world
| Titel: | A degenerate world / Jerzy Jedlicki ; translated by Tristan Korecki ; edited by Elena Rozbicka |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Frankfurt am Main; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Warszawa; Wien : Peter Lang Edition, [2016] |
| Umfang: | 207 Seiten ; 21 cm x 14.8 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik ; Band 14 |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Świat zwyrodniały |
| RVK-Notation: |
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| ISBN: | 3631642873 ; 9783631642870 ; 9783653031379 |
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- Introduction
- p. 9
- Chapter 1
- Three Centuries of Desperation: The Origins of the Idea of a Crisis of European Civilisation
- p. 13
- A Sick Civilisation: Since When?
- p. 15
- A Depraved Animal
- p. 18
- The Plagues of Philosophy and Algebra
- p. 22
- The Mechanical Age
- p. 25
- Upwards, Meaning Downwards
- p. 27
- Woe Betide Reason
- p. 31
- Blessed be the Crisis
- p. 33
- Postscript (1999)
- p. 38
- Chapter 2
- Gloomy Stereotypes of the West
- p. 43
- Chapter 3
- City on Trial
- p. 57
- Chapter 4
- Degeneration, the English Way
- p. 79
- Victorian Critics of Culture
- p. 79
- Evolution and Moral Progress
- p. 95
- Fin de siècle
- p. 124
- Brave New Century
- p. 149
- Bibliography
- p. 187
- Works up to 1918
- p. 187
- Works after 1918
- p. 192
- Index of Names
- p. 203
