A Short History of Decay by Emil M. Cioran

A Short History of Decay

Emil M. Cioran with Richard Howard (Translator), Eugene Thacker (Contributor)

nonfiction essays history philosophy reflective slow-paced

181 pages | first published 1949

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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 concer...
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