Making space for criminalistics: Hans Gross and fin-de-siècle CSI

From Exquisite to Transgressive Moderns? the Goncourt’s “decadent” Eighteenth-century Art Revival

As consummate collectors of French eighteenth-century art, the Goncourts’ contribution to its nineteenth-century history is well-known. This article explores a less well-documented aspect of their L’Art du dix-huitième siècle (1858-1875): that is, its articulation of an art of latent decadence prior to the term’s fin-de-siècle association with explicitly transgressive cultures of modernity. Ind...

Münsterberg's nightmare: psychology and history in fin-de-siècle Germany and America.

This article demonstrates that Hugo Münsterberg's presidential address "Psychology and History," delivered to the American Psychological Association in 1898, should be understood in the German context of the 1890s. It constituted a response to a central feature of fin-de-siècle culture in Europe, the revolt against positivism. To be more precise, Münsterberg reacted against a new intellectual t...

"Fin de siècle"--how we got into this financial and economic crisis and what implications it has for the practice of medicine in Singapore.

Life extension – a conservative enterprise? Some fin- de-siècle and early twentieth-century precursors of transhumanism

The beginning of the modern period in the pursuit of radical human enhancement and longevity can be traced to fin-de-siècle/early twentieth-century scientific and technological optimism and therapeutic activism. The works of several authors of the period – Fedorov, Stephens, Bogdanov, Nietzsche and Finot – reveal conflicting ideological and social pathways toward the goals of human enhancement ...

Traditions of the Modern : A Corrupt View

At this fin-de-siècle, the “post” that was meant to mark off the modern, or perhaps to qualify it, has turned out to be a looking-glass of sorts, reviving engagements with the question of modernity. However, lurking in the shadows of this discourse is the “constitutive outside” that makes possible such narratives: tradition. In this article, I explore the question of modernity through the trope...