Degeneration. Translated from the Second Edition of the German Work
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. Later printing. Octavo. xiv, 566pp. Index. Pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black. A near fine copy in a later acetate dust wrapper.
Contents: The dusk of the nation -- The symptoms -- Diagnosis -- Etiology -- The psychology of mysticism -- The Pre-Raphaelites -- Symbolism -- Tolstoism -- The Richard Wagner cult -- Parodies of mysticism -- The psychology of ego-mania -- Parnassian and diabolists -- Decadents and aesthetes -- Ibsenism -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Zola and his school -- The 'Young German' plagiarists -- Prognosis -- Therapeutics.
The first D. Appleton edition was 1895. This popular sociological of its day is its 15th printing. Near fine. Item #50753
Price: $65.00