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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Degeneration

Salvatore Tedesco

subject

Degeneration Morphology AestheticsSettore M-FIL/04 - Estetica

description

Complex and in many ways enlightening, the history of this concept presents the succession of an eighteenth-century phase in which the descriptive and structural meaning prevails, and of an nineteenth-twentieth-century phase in which, vice versa, the concept is charged with highly negative evaluative meanings, to the point of becoming salient in Nazi ideology as the indicator of an anti-model to be annihilated in the name of a totalitarian program connoted at the same time and alternatively in a biological-racial and artistic-stylistic sense.

10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_21https://hdl.handle.net/10447/591438