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Author Turda, Marius, author

Title Modernism and eugenics / Marius Turda
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 189 pages)
Series Modernism and
Modernism and--
Contents Introduction: Context and Methodology -- The Pathos of Science, 1870-1914 -- War: The World's Only Hygiene, 1914-1918 -- Eugenic Technologies of National Improvement, 1918-1933 -- Eugenics and Biopolitics, 1933-1940 -- Conclusion: Towards an Epistemology of Eugenic Knowledge
Summary Is the nation an 'imagined community' centered on culture or rather a biological community determined by heredity? Modernism and Eugenics examines this question from a bifocal perspective. On the one hand, it looks at technologies through which the individual body was re-defined eugenically by a diverse range of European scientists and politicians between 1870 and 1940; on the other, it illuminates how the national community was represented by eugenic discourses that strove to battle a perceived process of cultural decay and biological degeneration. In the wake of a renewed interest in the history of science and fascism, Modernism and Eugenics treats the history of eugenics not as distorted version of crude social Darwinism that found its culmination in the Nazi policies of genocide but as an integral part of European modernity, one in which the state and the individual embarked on an unprecedented quest to renew an idealized national community
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Eugenics -- Europe -- History
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Europe -- History
European history.
History of medicine.
Fascism & Nazism.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Eugenics
Modernism (Aesthetics)
European history -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
History of medicine -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Fascism & Nazism -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
History.
Eugenik
Eugenik.
Moderne.
Kunst.
Eugenèsia -- Europa -- Història.
Modernitat (Estètica) -- Europa -- Història.
Eugenics -- Europe -- History.
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Europe -- History.
Eugenik -- Europa -- historia.
Europe
Europa
Europa.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230281332
0230281338