10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEGENERATIONIST»
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degenerationist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Handbook of Modernism Studies
The mentally defective were therefore conscripted as manipulable figures of "
extimacy" for the degenerationist regime of biopower, allowing it to fulfill its
opposed imperatives of inclusion and exclusion, totalization and discrimination, ...
2
Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination
The Eloi, meanwhile, represent the other focal point of degenerationist concern:
the aristocracy, members of the leisure classes, and “decadent” groups whose
plush life has so insulated them that they have lost their mental and bodily vigor:
...
3
The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
For the decade following 1870, the Journal of Mental Science rarely mentioned
moral insanity, and when the discussion did resume, the concept had been
transformed by the degenerationist idea that humans can devolve and move
backward ...
4
Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial Theory
... discipline with a wide range of applications and use-values, this could only
count in their favour. Furthermore the biological basis of the degenerationist
thesis, grounded as it was in a theory of racial purity, had other important
implications ...
Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margeret Iverson, 1996
5
The Degenerate Muse: American Nature, Modernist Poetry, and ...
Degenerationist advocates of scientific Nature Study thus had multiple reasons to
dislike poetry. Not only was verse the antithesis of “fact,” it was also a
conventional cultural vehicle for the communication of human emotion and, as
such, ...
6
'Los Invisibles': A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, ...
The first degenerationist analyses of sexual 'perversion' arrived around this time;
see G. Lanteri-Laura, Lecture des Perversions. Histoire de leur appropriation
médicale (Paris: Masson, 1979), pp. 47–52 and Huertas García-Alejo, 'El
concepto ...
Richard Cleminson, Francisco Vázquez García, 2007
7
Emile Durkheim: Critical Assessments of Leading Sociologists
Whereas the former text conformed to degenerationist thinking in depicting crime
as a disease, the second re- pudiated this association. This line of thinking was
continued in Suicide which contended that each social type had an equivalent ...
8
Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present
Psychoanalysis did not adopt a degenerationist explanation of sexuality in
relation to social progress, but nor did it abandon that earlier discourse's core
teleological assumptions; Freud viewed sexual behaviour in each stage of
civilization as ...
Kate Fisher, Sarah Toulalan, 2011
9
Process and Providence: The Evolution Question at Princeton, ...
His tightly argued little book Genesis and Semitic Tradition, published in 1894,
championed a degenerationist alternative to what the Germans later called the “
Babel-Bibel” theory, us- ing the very methods they had taught him.49 The ancient
...
Bradley J. Gundlach, 2013
10
Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control
Decades passed before Darwin's theory of natural selection replaced
degenerationist explanations. In the degenerationist view, humans are
susceptible to a vast number of forces – mental, moral, and physical – that can
induce degenerative ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEGENERATIONIST»
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New findings suggest scientists not getting smarter
Jensen may not have been a degenerationist sensu strictu, but his opposition to environmental improvement earns him a data point. In 1990 ... «ScienceBlog.com, Nov 12»
