Is the nation an 'imagined community' centered on culture or rather
a biological community determined by heredity? "Modernism and
Eugenics" examines this question from a bifocal perspective. On the
one hand, it looks at technologies through which the individual
body was re-defined eugenically by a diverse range of European
scientists and politicians between 1870 and 1940; on the other, it
illuminates how the national community was represented by eugenic
discourses that strove to battle a perceived process of cultural
decay and biological degeneration. In the wake of a renewed
interest in the history of science and fascism, "Modernism and
Eugenics" treats the history of eugenics not as distorted version
of crude social Darwinism that found its culmination in the Nazi
policies of genocide but as an integral part of European modernity,
one in which the state and the individual embarked on an
unprecedented quest to renew an idealized national community.
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