Decadent Genealogies

The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

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ID5776320
AuthorsBarbara Spackman (corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-05-26
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueDecadent Genealogies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501723308
OpenAlexW4246857961
Open LibraryOL36227941M
ISBN9781501723308
LanguageEN
Citations received24
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of anarchism draws freely from other revolutionary discourses.The distinguish ing feature of anarchism, for Lombroso, is its "prematurity": "E qui appare la distinzione fra le rivoluzioni propriamente dette che sono un effetto lento, preparato, necessario, tutt'al piu precipitato da qualche genio nevrotico o da qualche accidence storico, e le rivolte o sedizioni, frutti di un'incubazione artificiale a temperatura esagerata, di embrioni predestinati a morire.La rivo luzione e l'espressione storica dell'evoluzione, calma, ma estesa e sicura .... Questa non e dunque una malattia, ma una fase necessaria dello sviluppo della specie.Le sedizioni invece sono opera di pochi, corrispondono a cause poco importanti, sovente locali o personali, frequenti presso i popoli poco civili, come a San Domingo. ... i delinquenti e i pazzi vi partecipano in maggior copia spintivi dalla loro morbosita a pensare, a sentire diversamente dagli onesti e sani" {"And here emerges the distinction between what are properly called revolutions, which are a slow, prepared, and necessary effect, at the most precipitated by some neurotic genius or by historical accident, and revolts or seditions, which are the fruit of an artificial incubation at an exaggerated temperature and of embryos predestined to die.Revolution is the historical expression of evolution, calm but wide-ranging and sure .... This, then, is not a sickness but a necessary phase in the development of the species.Seditions instead are the work of a fe w, they correspond to causes of little importance, often of a local or personal nature, frequent in uncivilized peoples, as in San Domingo .... criminals and madmen participate in them in greater numbers , urged on by their sickliness to think and feel differently from the healthy and honest

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