Concept
Fin de siècle
Overview
late 19th-century cultural phenomenon in Europe
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It became more and more the habit, particularly of the inferior sorts of literati, to make up for the want of cleverness in their productions, by political allusions which were sure to attract attention. Poetry, novels, reviews, the drama, every literary production teemed with what was called "tendency," that is with more or less timid exhibitions of an anti-governmental spirit. In order to complete the confusion of…
Friedrich Engels, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Close in meaning to Fin de siècle; the term itself is not named.
During the decline of Chivalry, Art received indirectly an additional impulse from the movement of social decomposition which has been going on rapidly for the last five centuries. In this movement all mental and social influences gradually participated. Negativism, it is true, is not the proper province of Art; but the dogmas of Christianity were so oppressive to it, that its efforts to shake off the yoke were of…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
Close in meaning to Fin de siècle; the term itself is not named.
In London, the dramatic muse was turbulent and licentious; as in Madrid it had been chivalrous and gallant. Everywhere the theatre had to accommodate itself to the taste of the people. The first regular tragedy which Pierre Corneille composed in France was derived from a Spanish ballad.
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, The golden verses of Pythagoras
Close in meaning to Fin de siècle; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Fin de siècle
Related ideas
- Expressionism
- Emotion
- French language
- Fascism
- Philosophy
- Vitalism
- Aestheticism
- Decadence
- Painting
- Materialism
- Modernism
- Oscar Wilde
- Psychology
- Physiology
- Pessimism
- Romanticism
- Positivism
- Mysticism
- Utopia
- Optimism
- Irrationalism
- Consciousness
- Bourgeoisie
- Charles Baudelaire
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Fascism.