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NORDAU, MAX SIMON (1849- )
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See also:NORDAU, MAX See also:SIMON (1849- ) , See also:German author and philosopher, was See also:born of Jewish parents at See also:Budapest on the 29th of See also:July 1849. He studied See also:medicine and travelled widely through See also:Europe until 1878, when he settled down as a practitioner in his native See also:town. In 188o he removed to See also:Paris, and in addition to his professional See also:work took up the study of See also:art, literature and social questions. His investigations were marked by a See also:critical accuracy which endeavoured to weigh data and deduce results with a fearless disregard of conventional ideas. In his Entartung he applied the theory of See also:physical degeneration to the intellectual See also:side of civilized See also:man, and endeavoured to show that in art, literature and social See also:evolution there is decadence and See also:hysteria; confused aesthetic theory, See also:mysticism in thought, so-called " See also:realism " in art, all alike indicate the vain spasmodic struggling of an effete See also:civilization. In See also:Die konventionellen Lugen der Kulturmenschheit (1884), the same destructive method is applied to politics and to social See also:science. Yet Nordau was not a pessimist. In the Paradoxes psychologiques (1885) he expressed his profound and .reasoned conviction that the " Degeneration " of the See also:time was only temporary. This optimism was seen in his enthusiastic support of Dr See also:Herzl's Zionist .See also:movement. In connexion with the See also:British See also:government's offer of See also:land for a Jewish See also:settlement in See also:East See also:Africa, there was a fundamental difference of See also:opinion among the various Jewish See also:societies. Herzl and Nordau were accused of giving up the See also:idea of returning to See also:Palestine, and substituting the See also:African See also:scheme. This idea provoked See also:great hostility, and at a Zionist See also:Ball in Paris (19th of See also:December 1903) a See also:Jew named Louban See also:Chain Selik fired two shots at Nordau unsuccessfully. The See also:outrage See also:drew from Herzl a See also:letter (The Times, 22nd of December) which clearly set forth the view held by himself and Nordau as to the ultimate destiny of the Zionist Movement. WoRxs.—Novels and Stories: Seifenblasen, Federzeichnungen and Geschichten (1879); Die Krankheit See also:des Jahrhunderts (1889),_ Gefullskomodie (1892); Die Drohnenschlacht (1897); Morganatisch Besides the See also:works noticed above, see the accounts of See also:Norden by (1904). Dramas: Die neuen Journalisten (in collaboration with F. See also:Gross, 188o) ; Der Krieg der Millionen (1882) ; Das Recht zu lieben (2nd ed., 1894); Die Kugel (1894); and Doktor Kohn (1898). He published also Vom Kreml zur See also:Alhambra (188o), an See also:account of his travels, and three works descriptive of Paris and the Parisians—Pariser Studien aus dem wahren Milliardenlande (1878) ; Paris unter der dritten Republik (1881); Ausgewahlte Pariser Briefe (1887); two further volumes of See also:criticism, Zeitgenossische Franzosen, literatureschichtliche essays (See also:Berlin, 1901); and Von Kunst and Kiinstlern See also:Leipzig, 1905). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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