Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Degeneration: An Introduction IX
5. 1. History and Degeneration: Of Birds and Cages 1
6. 2. Anthropology and Degeneration: Birds, Words, and Orangutans 24
7. 3. Sociology and Degeneration: The Irony of Progress 49
8. 4. Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and Degeneration: From a Theory of Race to a Race to Theory 72
9. 5. Biology and Degeneration: Races and Proper Places 97
10. 6. Medicine and Degeneration: Theory and Praxis 121
11. 7. Technology and Degeneration: The Sublime Machine 145
12. 8. Political Theory and Degeneration: From Left to Right, From up to down 165
13. 9. Literature and Degeneration: The Representation of “Decadence” 199
14. 10. Art and Degeneration: Visual Icons of Corruption 220
15. 11. Theater and Degeneration: Subversion and Sexuality 241
16. 12. Images of Degeneration: Turnings and Transformations 263
17. Degeneration: Conclusion 290
18. Index 295