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A Short History of Decay

Paperback • 2012 • English

A Short History of Decay

By E. M. Cioran

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E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme,...Show more

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9781611457360

Publisher

Arcade Publishing

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

A Short History of Decay

Format

Paperback

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