A Short History of Decay (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Cioran, E. M.

 
9780241343463: A Short History of Decay (Penguin Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241343461 ISBN 13: 9780241343463
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers, whose thinking was influenced by pessimism and existentialism. A Romanian, he lived most of his life in Paris. His major works in Romanian include On the Heights of Despair and, in French, A Short History of Decay and Drawn and Quartered. He refused nearly every literary prize he was awarded.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241343461
ISBN 13 
9780241343463
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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