Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau 1892, 1898

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Degeneration
Nordau, Max Simon, 1849-1923; King's College London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Nordau
Publication date 1898

He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist congresses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degeneration_(Nordau)

https://archive.org/details/b21294355/page/n7

art exhibitions, concerts, plays and books, however extraordinary, do not suffice for the aesthetic needs of elegant society. Novel sensations alone can satisfy it. It demands more intense stimulus, and hopes for it in spectacles, where different arts strive in new combinations to affect all the senses at once. Poets and artists strain every nerve incessantly to satisfy this craving.