Decadent Subjects
Bernheimer, Charles / Kline, T. Jefferson (Boston University) / Schor, Naomi (Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French, Yale University)
Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a "stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds." In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable, rarely understood term.Decadent Subjects is a coherent and moving picture of fin de sicle decadence. Mature, ironic, iconoclastic, and thoughtful, this remarkable collection of essays shows the c...