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... contemporary decadence . For more than fifty years , the Western world has haunted itself with rumors of its own death . Some said that the life of the instincts was being smothered , others that the spirit had become dry and brittle ...
... contemporary decadence . For more than fifty years , the Western world has haunted itself with rumors of its own death . Some said that the life of the instincts was being smothered , others that the spirit had become dry and brittle ...
Page 209
... contemporary art , the most divergent aesthetic points of departure , like Proust's and Malraux's , passed by way of the same trackless history and often led to surprising similarities . So also with political theory . The fear of the ...
... contemporary art , the most divergent aesthetic points of departure , like Proust's and Malraux's , passed by way of the same trackless history and often led to surprising similarities . So also with political theory . The fear of the ...
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... Contemporary France . It was a reaction , not against socialism , but against the French Revolution itself . Since the people played a role in that event , they were seen as its cause . It mattered little that the plebeian power was ...
... Contemporary France . It was a reaction , not against socialism , but against the French Revolution itself . Since the people played a role in that event , they were seen as its cause . It mattered little that the plebeian power was ...
Contents
THE ACCIDENTAL REVOLUTION | 13 |
IMAGES OF DISORDER | 43 |
THE COLD DECADENCE | 77 |
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