The Decadents had no interest for the real world and for the industrialization of society, which they considered pointless and the cause of man's unhappiness. Arts and dreams, on the other hand, were their unique sources of inspiration and, in the end, their lives. They loathed materialism and positivism, prefering instead the rejection of established norms, as well as the concept of Idealism and anarchy (or apolitism).Idealistic and, paradoxically, disillusioned, the Decadents refused the mediocrity around them to recreate, through art, their very own world. As such, they rejected the concept of Positivism (developed by Auguste Comte), which was particularly popular at the time and which discredited the importance of dreams to concentrate on Rationalism and the faith in the evolution of man.
The Decadents
