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Two fin de siècles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

H. L. Wesseling
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Abstract

Is the end of the 20th century comparable with the end of the 19th century, the so-called fin de siècle? To what extent are the cultural characterizations of that decade—for fin de siècle is first and foremost a cultural concept—applicable to our days? The answer to this question is not easy to give because there are similarities as well as dissimilarities. The central preoccupation of the fin de siècle however was the feeling of decadence, the idea that European civilization was past its prime and on to the end. This notion is not a characteristic of the present day's cultural climate and therefore there exists a fundamental difference between the two periods.

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FOCUS—Two Fin de Siècles
Information
European Review , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 213 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1994

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