A Short History Of Decay
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Author | : E. M. Cioran |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1628724943 |
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.
Author | : E. M. Cioran |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 161145736X |
In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity thatwhen you think about it a little more than usual you are left . . . with afoolish...
Author | : E. M. Cioran |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1611456967 |
"A brilliant and original exponent of a rare genre, the philosophical essay. Once read, Cioran cannot fail to provoke reaction. New York Times Book...
Author | : Emile M. Cioran |
Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781559704717 |
Romanian-born E.M. Cioran moved to Paris at the age of 26, remaining there nearly six decades until his death in 1995. He was called "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" and "the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche"; the bleak aphorisms of All Gall Is Divided make a strong case for either appellation. "With every idea born in us," he declares early on, "something in us rots." Throughout the book, he addresses the futile attempts of man to impose meaning on a meaningless existence--"That there should be a reality hidden by appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope"--and nurses an ongoing fascination with the possibilities death holds for release from life's madness. (When the Dead Kennedys sang, "I look forward to death / This world brings me down," they might as well have been taking notes from Cioran.) Grim stuff, but presented in brilliant, crystalline form--particularly in the translation by Richard Howard, which retains Cioran's cold, detached viewpoint.
Author | : Olivier Peru |
Publisher | : Insight Comics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781608878628 |
A vivid and richly illustrated graphic novel, Zombies offers an action-packed tour through an apocalyptic vision of America. Mankind is no longer at the top of the food chain. Zombies have taken their place, and nothing can stop them. Is this the end of humanity? Perhaps, but for some it is only the beginning. Six billion living corpses are all that remains of civilization. Among the few survivors is Sam Coleman, a man who owes his salvation to Smith & Wesson and a little luck. Fleeing Seattle at the onset of the zombie outbreak, he was forced to leave his daughter behind. Yet now that silence has fallen over the city, he believes that she may still be alive. And his conscience serves up a constant reminder that to be human in this grim world is to have hope—and to keep fighting.
Author | : E. M. Cioran |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1628724951 |
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic. “A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning”—The Washington Post
Author | : E. M. Cioran |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 1998-07-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226106748 |
"(Cioran's) statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning".--WASHINGTON POST. In TEARS AND SAINTS, Cioran touches on nearly all the themes that would preoccupy the writer over the course of his career. Self-consciously perverse, this collection will fascinate anyone interested in saints, mysticism, philosophy, the history of Christianity, or the ultimate strangeness of the sacred.
Author | : E. M. Cioran |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2013-03-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022603724X |
Dubbed “Nietzsche without his hammer” by literary critic James Wood, the Romanian philosopher E. M. Cioran is known as much for his profound pessimism and fatalistic approach as for the lyrical, raging prose with which he communicates them. Unlike many of his other works, such as On the Heights of Despair and Tears and Saints, The New Gods eschews his usual aphoristic approach in favor of more extensive and analytic essays. Returning to many of Cioran’s favorite themes, The New Gods explores humanity’s attachment to gods, death, fear, and infirmity, in essays that vary widely in form and approach. In “Paleontology” Cioran describes a visit to a museum, finding the relatively pedestrian destination rife with decay, death, and human weakness. In another chapter, Cioran explores suicide in shorter, impressionistic bursts, while “The Demiurge” is a shambolic exploration of man’s relationship with good, evil, and God. All the while, The New Gods reaffirms Cioran’s belief in “lucid despair,” and his own signature mixture of pessimism and skepticism in language that never fails to be a pleasure. Perhaps his prose itself is an argument against Cioran’s near-nihilism: there is beauty in his books.
Author | : Emile M. Cioran |
Publisher | : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Will Durant |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439170193 |
A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.