E.M. Cioran

A Short History of Decay

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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.
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230 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Subhash Annapragadahas quotedlast year
    No one could survive the instantaneous comprehension of universal grief, each heart being stirred only for a certain quantity of sufferings
  • Subhash Annapragadahas quotedlast year
    Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.
  • Talia Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    Whereas the fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited among the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exas

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