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A Short History of Decay by E M Cioran
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Category: Critical Thinking
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 ...Show more
History and Utopia by E M Cioran
$26.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are, writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett. In "History and Utopia," Cioran the monster writes of politics in its broadest sense, of history, and of the utopian dream. His vi ...Show more
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed ...Show more
The Trouble with Being Born by E M Cioran
$29.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style ...Show more
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