E·M·齐奥朗/萧沆：解体概要 豆瓣阅读 英文原版 A Short History of Decay E. M. Cioran

基本信息

By (author) E. M. Cioran , Translated by Richard Howard , Foreword by Eugene Thacker

Format Paperback | 200 pages

Dimensions 142 x 210 x 140mm | 269g

Publication date 29 Nov 2012

Publisher Skyhorse Publishing

Imprint Arcade Publishing

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

Edition Statement Reprint

ISBN10 161145736X

ISBN13 9781611457360

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

本书是萧沆的代表作，以片段写作的方式，呈现了真实的人生经验，它会破坏你我所有的信念，从心灵到肉体、从宗教到哲学、从出生到终结，任何既定想法，都会在这本书的阅读过程中，全面解体。本书是萧沆的第一部法文作品，被认为“足令法文增辉”，并获法国里瓦罗尔（RIVAROL）奖。

Dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. “To miss reading this book would be a deprivation.”—Los Angeles Times

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. Table of Contents:

Foreword

Directions for Decomposition

The Second-Hand Thinker

Faces of Decadence

Sanctity and the Grimaces of the Absolute

The Décor of Knowledge

Abdications

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,

“When A Short History of Decay was published, it tended to polarize readers. Many dismissed it as overly morose and pessimistic, completely out of tune with the obligatory optimism of postwar European culture. Others praised it for precisely these reasons (in his review of the book, Maurice Nadeau proclaimed Cioran ‘the one whose arrival has been prepared by all the philosophers of the void and of the absurd, harbinger of bad news par excellence’). The original impact of Cioran’s book can still be felt in reading A Short History of Decay today.”—Eugene Thacker, from his Foreword

作者简介

萧沆（Emil Cioran, 1911—1995，也译作齐奥朗），罗马尼亚裔旅法哲人，20世紀著名怀疑论、虚无主义哲学家，以文辞新奇、思想深邃、激烈见称。他深受叔本华、尼采、舍斯托夫、陀思妥耶夫斯基影响。萧沆在欧美思想界享有盛名，作品曾被译成多种文字，苏珊•桑塔格、卡尔维诺、米兰•昆德拉等都深受其影响。

E. M. Cioran left his native land of Romania for Paris in the late 1930s, where he lived and wrote until his death in 1995. His many books include Anathemas and Admirations, A Short History of Decay, and The Trouble with Being Born.

Richard Howard is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Untitled Subjects, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. He is the translator for more than 150 works from the French language. He received the American Book Award for his translation of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.

Eugene Thacker is the author of several books, including After Life and Horror of Philosophy. He teaches at The New School in New York.