A Short History of Decay

E. M. Cioran (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2018
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-34346-3 (ISBN)

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A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-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, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.

E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers, author of what William Gass called romances on 'alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease'. A Romanian, he lived much of his life in Paris and many of his major works were written in French, including A Short History of Decay, The Trouble with Being Born and Drawn and Quartered.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 197 mm
Gewicht	147 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	0-241-34346-1 / 0241343461
ISBN-13	978-0-241-34346-3 / 9780241343463
Zustand	Neuware