A short history of decay / E.M. Cioran ; translated from the French by Richard Howard ; foreword by...
A short history of decay / E.M. Cioran ; translated from the French by Richard Howard ; foreword by...
A short history of decay / E.M. Cioran ; translated from the French by Richard Howard ; foreword by Eugene Thacker.
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London : Penguin Books, [2018]
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G 2019/4266
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English
French
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Physical content
185 pages ; 20 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
London : Penguin Books, [2018]
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New York (State)
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[2018]
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Summary
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-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 essays are pessimistic in...
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A short history of decay / E.M. Cioran ; translated from the French by Richard Howard ; foreword by Eugene Thacker.
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Penguin modern classics
First published in French as Précis de décomposition 1949.
This translation first published in the USA by Seaver Books, 1975.
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Translated from the French.
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©1975.
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G 2019/4266
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74VKVlRkPvx3
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9780241343463 (paperback)
DDC
128
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991024261216102626
