Fin-de-siecle

Stubbs, Jeremy. "Between medicine and hermeticism The Unconscious in fin de siecle France." In Symbolism, decadence and the fin de sie cle French and European perspectives, 144-172. Exeter Exeter Univ. P., 2000. 

Moffitt, John F. Fin-de-siecle Parisian Hermeticism Hermetic and alchemical publications in the Bibliotheque Saint-Genevieve. Cauda Pavonis 14, no. 2 (Fall 1995) 10-15. 

McGuinness, Patrick, ed. Symbolism, decadence and the fin de siecle French and European perspectives / Edited by Patrick McGuinness. Exeter Univ of Exeter P, 2000. x, 340 p. 

Includes Between Medicine and Hermeticism The Unconscious in Fin-De-Siecle France / Jeremy Stubbs... 

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Special Sorrows The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 102-105, and The Quintessence of the Jew Polemics of Nationalism and Peoplehood in Turn-of-the-Century Yiddish Fiction, in Werner Sollors and Marc Schell, eds., Multilingual America (New York New York University Press, forthcoming) John Efron, Defenders of the Race Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (New Haven Yale University Press, 1994). 

Jacobs, Jewish Statistics, pp. v, xiv Efron, Defenders, pp. 79-80 Maurice Fishberg, The Jews A Study of Race and Environment (n.l. Walter Scott, 1911) Sander Gilman, The Case of Sigmund Freud Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siecle (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), pp. 11-68 Sander Gilman, Freud, Race, and Gender (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 12-48. 

In a related development, the nineteenth-century fin de siecle was the epoch in which self-styled modem art was first vigorously and successfully marketed... 

Another author claims that presently—at our own fin de siecle, exactly a century after the Symbolists first pioneered the provocative idea—Alchemy has once again become the perfect metaphor for alert artists currently attempting to describe a baleful postmodernist, contemporary condition. According to William Dunning,... 

In fact, Kandinsky generously credited his spiritual reeducation to the foremost occultist leader of the fin de siecle, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. As Kandinsky earnestly explained. 

To one familiar with Hinton s writings, it is apparent that he was just another fin de siecle Occultist. This is rather obvious from another comment made in his A New Era of Thought ... 

For various approaches to the problem of the complex relationships existing between fin de siecle occultism and early modern art, see the various art-historical essays assembled in exhibition catalogues directed by Tuchman (1986) and Loers... 

For some strictly occultist, fin de siecle discussions of dreams and the unconscious, see (among others) Blavatsky, Doctrine Secrete, vol. 1, 170 Bragdon, Four-Dimensional Vistas, chapter 6 ( Sleep and Dreams ) Carpenter, 72, 105 W. James, Varieties of Religious Experience, 405, 483-85 Ouspensky, Tertium Organum, 239. 

For full details of my bibliographic trouvailles, see Moffitt, Fin-de-Siecle Parisian Hermeticism for more data on Duchamp s library experiences, see Gough-Cooper, Ephemerides, 4 November 1912 3 November 1913 and 19 January 1915. 

Jensen, R. Marketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siecle Europe. Princeton Univ. Press, 1994. 

Fin-de-Siecle Parisian Hermeticism Hermetic and Alchemical Publications in the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve. Cauda Pavonis Studies in Hermeticism 15/1 (1996) 1-9. 

Silverman, D. L. Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France Politics, Psychology, and Style. Berkeley Univ. of California Press, 1989. 

Staller, N. Babel Hermetic Languages, Universal Languages, and AntLLanguages in Fin de Siecle Parisian Culture. Art Bidletin 76 (1994) 331—54... 

Weber, E. France Fin de Siecle. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap, 1986. 

Sanchez LB (1998) Aldehyde dehydrogenase (CoA-acetylating) and the mechanism of ethanol formation in the amitochondriate protist, Giardia lamblia. Arch Biochem Biophys 354 57-64 Saraste M (1999) Oxidative phosphorylation at the fin de siecle. Science 283 1488-1493 Saruta F, Kuramochi T, Nakamura K, Takamiya S, Yu Y, Aoki T, Sekimizu K, Kojima S, Kita K (1995) Stage-specific isoforms of complex II (succinate-ubiquinone oxidoreductase) in mitochondria from the parasitic nematode, Ascaris suum. J Biol Chem 270 928-932 Scheffler I (1999) Mitochondria. Wiley-Liss, New York... 

Rotte C, Henze K, Muller M, Martin W (2000) Origins of hydrogenosomes and mitochondria -commentary. Curr Opin Microbiol 3 481-486 Saraste M (1999) Oxidative phosphorylation at the fin de siecle. Science 283 1488-1493 Sickmann A, Reinders J, Wagner Y, Joppich C, Zahedi R, Meyer HE, Schonfisch B, Perschil I, Chacinska A, Guiard B, Rehling P, Pfanner N, Meisinger C (2003) The proteome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100 13207-13212 Smith TF, Waterman MS (1981) Identification of common molecular subsequences. J Mol Biol 147 195-197... 

Saraste, M., 1999, Oxidative Phosphorylation at the fin de siEcle, 5 cience283 1488nl493. 

M. Saraste. 1999. Oxidative phosphorylation at the fin de siecle Science 283 1488-1493. (PubMed)... 

McKibben s melancholy fin-de-siecle view of the world is, consciously or unconsciously, probably rather widely shared. But there is also an opposite view a new-century, can-do view, tempered by the insights and experiences of the world s Bill McKibbens, that says We can and will make the world a better place. This view has inspired and prodded thousands and thousands of activists, researchers, and others to work for a cleaner environment. It was expressed first and best by Jules Verne, in his 1874 novel The Mysterious Island ... 

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