Regeneration : A reply to Max Nordau

A polemical work of cultural criticism written in the late 19th century. It rebuts Max Nordau’s Degeneration, arguing that modern art, literature, and music are not pathological signs but expressions of renewal, imagination, and ethical striving. The treatise challenges the misuse of “scientific” diagnosis in aesthetics, defends mysticism and symbolism, and situates cultural change within social realities like poverty, militarism, and