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COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/161145736X Dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. “To miss reading this book would be a deprivation.”—Los Angeles TimesE. 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:ForewordDirections for DecompositionThe Second-Hand ThinkerFaces of DecadenceSanctity and the Grimaces of the AbsoluteThe Décor of KnowledgeAbdicationsTouching 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,“When A Short History of Decay was published, it tended to polarize readers. Many dismissed it as overly morose and pessimistic, completely out of tune with the obligatory optimism of postwar European culture. Others praised it for precisely these reasons (in his review of the book, Maurice Nadeau proclaimed Cioran ‘the one whose arrival has been prepared by
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Dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. “To miss reading this book would be a deprivation.”—Los Angeles TimesE. 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:ForewordDirections for DecompositionThe Second-Hand ThinkerFaces of DecadenceSanctity and the Grimaces of the AbsoluteThe Décor of KnowledgeAbdicationsTouching 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,“When A Short History of Decay was published, it tended to polarize readers. Many dismissed it as overly morose and pessimistic, completely out of tune with the obligatory optimism of postwar European culture. Others praised it for precisely these reasons (in his review of the book, Maurice Nadeau proclaimed Cioran ‘the one whose arrival has been prepared by
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COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/161145736X Dissects Man's decadence in a
remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. “Tomiss reading this book would be a
deprivation.”#8212Los Angeles TimesE. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in
the context of human history—fousing on such major issues of the twentieth century as
human progress, fanaticism, and science—inthis nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic
essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Table of
Contents:ForewordDirections for DecompositionThe Second-Hand ThinkerFaces of
DecadenceSanctity and the Grimaces of the AbsoluteThe Décorof
KnowledgeAbdicationsTouching 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,“Whn A Short History of Decay was
published, it tended to polarize readers. Many dismissed it as overly morose and pessimistic,
completely out of tune with the obligatory optimism of postwar European culture. Others praised it
for precisely these reasons (in his review of the book, Maurice Nadeau proclaimed Cioran
‘thone whose arrival has been prepared by all the philosophers of the void and of the
absurd, harbinger of bad news par excellence’. The original impact of Cioran’sbook
can still be felt in reading A Short History of Decay today.”#8212Eugene Thacker, from his
Foreword
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