Beschreibung
Focusing mainly on Poland and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book looks at the critics of modernity, those who saw doom in the innovations and discoveries of their time and a degenerating civilization. This trend of gloomy forecasts and distaste for modern civilization has left its mark on the European culture of our times.
Autorenportrait
Jerzy Jedlicki is Professor emeritus at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences where he headed the research group for the history of the intelligentsia. He also was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. in 1989–90. His expertise is European social and intellectual history of the 18th–20th c.
Inhalt
Contents: Degeneration – Degenerate – Modernity – Decline of civilisation – Darwinism – Crisis – Victorian Era – Edwardian Era – Fin de Siècle – Turn of the century – City on trial – Industrial cities – Progress – Eugenics – Post-Enlightenment – Science Fiction – Mechanical Age – Romanticism – Railways – Steam Age – The West.
