Aesthetics of Decadence: Meanings and Forms

Автор: Kulikov V.S., Pushkareva T.V.

Журнал: Общество: философия, история, культура @society-phc

Рубрика: Культура

Статья в выпуске: 7, 2025 года.

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The study aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of French Decadence, which manifested in literature at the turn of the 19th and early 20th centuries, leading to numerous sociocultural repercussions both in France and beyond its borders. The authors examine how the specific conditions of that time – rapid scientific and technological progress, the loss of previous social guidelines, deep internal contradictions of bourgeois society – led to the emergence of characteristic decadent motives: pessimism, denial of traditional values, the cultivation of bore-dom and exhaustion, as well as interest in exoticism and mysticism. Particular attention is paid to the works of key figures of French literary Decadence, revealing their inner worlds and philosophical quests. It is concluded that after a century and a half, the aesthetics of French decadence is included in the mainstream of existing culture in a “subdued” form, enriching and saturating its content, but no longer reaching the extreme poles of its historical forms.

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Decadence, aesthetics, culture, art of the late 19th – early 20th century, symbolist poets, decadents, dandy, crisis

Короткий адрес: https://sciup.org/149148796

IDR: 149148796   |   DOI: 10.24158/fik.2025.7.18

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