A Short History of Decay
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3.5 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Great content, horrible scanned edition
This is a review of the digital book. The publisher should be ashamed. There are formatting issues, mangled or missing words, and bad OCR moments like this:
“History: a factory of ideals . . . lunatic mythology, frenzy of hordes and ©f solitaries . . . refusal to look reality in the face, mortal thirst for fictions. . . .”
Not only is that an @ instead of an old, the ellipses are formatted as series of periods, meaning that the spacing is ahead and they break awkwardly on line breaks. Very unprofessional.