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A Short History of Decay

Written by: E. M. Cioran
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
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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. Table of Contents:

Foreword

Directions for Decomposition

The Second-Hand Thinker

Faces of Decadence

Sanctity and the Grimaces of the Absolute

The Décor of Knowledge

Abdications

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.

©1975 Seaver Books (P)2022 Skyhorse Publishing Philosophy Witty
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