Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain

by Dan Stone

Book Overview

Before the First World War there existed an intellectual turmoil in Britain as great as any in Germany, France or Russia, as the debates over Nietzsche and eugenics in the context of early modernism reveal. With the rise of fascism after 1918, these debates became more ideologically driven, with science and vitalist philosophy being hailed in some quarters as saviours from bourgeois decadence, vituperated in others as heralding the onset of barbarism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853239975
• ISBN13: 9780853239970
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 197 Pages