Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers; past and present; have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture; from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists; and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna; this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the 19th and 20th centuries; the author traces the roots of declinism and aims to show how major thinkers of the past and present; including Nietzsche; DuBois; Sartre; and Foucault; have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.
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