History and Utopia
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History and Utopia

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History and Utopia

About this book

"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 views are, to say the least, provocative. In one essay he casts a scathing look at democracy, that "festival of mediocrity"; in another he turns his uncompromising gaze on Russia, its history, its evolution, and what he calls "the virtues of liberty." In the dark shadow of Stalin and Hitler, he writes of tyrants and tyranny with rare lucidity and convincing logic. In "Odyssey of Rancor, " he examines the deep-rooted dream in all of us to "hate our neighbors, " to take immediate and irremediable revenge. And, in the final essay, he analyzes the notion of the "golden age, " the biblical Eden, the utopia of so many poets and thinkers.

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Publisher
Arcade
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781628724257
eBook ISBN
9781628724660
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
French Literary Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Letter to a Faraway Friend
  7. Russia and the Virus of Liberty
  8. Learning from the Tyrants
  9. Odyssey of Rancor
  10. Mechanism of Utopia
  11. The Golden Age

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