A Short History of Decay

E. M. Cioran (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2012
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61145-736-0 (ISBN)

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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, 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.

Übersetzer	Richard Howard
Vorwort	Eugene Thacker
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	269 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-61145-736-X / 161145736X
ISBN-13	978-1-61145-736-0 / 9781611457360
Zustand	Neuware