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A Short History of Decay

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.

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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."@en
  • "Réédition du premier essai de Cioran (1949). Obnubilé par le déclin de l'Occident, considérant les idéologies et les doctrines comme des "farces sanglantes", cet auteur a sans doute droit au titre de premier "Nouveau philosophe". Une pensée lucide, cynique, qu'on comprend mieux en sachant que Cioran est d'origine roumaine. Percutant. Et quel style. Selon S. Jaudeau (en 1990), un livre très balkanique par ses outrances, son style baroque et son lyrisme révolté."
  • "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."@en
  • "Toute idée devrait être neutre ; mais l'homme l'anime, y projette ses flammes et ses démences : le passage de la logique à l'épilepsie est consommée... Ainsi naissent les mythologies, les doctrines, et les farces sanglantes. Point d'intolérance ou de prosélytisme qui ne révèle le fond bestial de l'enthousiasme."

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  • "Kratek pregled raspadanja"
  • "解體槪要"
  • "Çürümenin kitabı"@tr
  • "Çürümenin kitabı"
  • "Jie ti gai yao"
  • "Enkolpio anaskolopismou"
  • "A Short History of Decay"@en
  • "Précis de décomposition : par E. M. Cioran"
  • "Brevario de podredumbre"
  • "Lehre vom Zerfall : essays"
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  • "A short history of decay"
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  • "Lehre vom Zerfall : Essays"
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  • "Zarys rozkładu"
  • "Kratak pregled raspadanja"
  • "Lehre vom Zerfall"
  • "Nástin úpadku"
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