The Decadence of Europe
Author: Francesco Saverio Nitti
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 332
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Author: Francesco Saverio Nitti
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Desmarais
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 745
ISBN-13: 0190066954
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Author: Francesco Saverio Nitti
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sutherland Menzies (pseud. [i.e. Elizabeth Stone.])
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raymond Aron
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781412826044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaymond Aron's "In Defense of Decadent Europe" was first conceived at a time of great uncertainty for the Western democracies. The postwar economic boom had been interrupted by "stagflation," while communist and socialist parties in Italy and France were powerful factors in Europe's political landscape. Aron's book has a threefold purpose: the analysis of the Soviet Russian regime and its Marxist-Leninist theoretical foundation; the detailed empirical comparison between liberal democracies and collectivist regimes of the East; and, above all, the exploration of what might be termed the "problem" of democracy the tendency of democratic regimes to undermine themselves unless checked in their most extreme tendencies. Aron denounces the clash between democracy and the Marxist-Leninist mystification and explains how Marxism leads to Soviet-style ideology. The second part of the book constitutes a defense of liberal Europe. The author makes comparisons in terms of productivity, technical innovation, living standards, scientific progress, and human freedom. But Aron also notes there are important ways in which the West must put her house in order by cultivating authority in the church, in universities, in business, and even in the army. This paradox is conveyed by the title of the book, the juxtaposition of the words "In Defense of and Decadent Europe." In the new introduction, Daniel Mahoney and Brian Anderson discuss the disenchanted conservative liberalism of Raymond Aron that set him apart. Among the topics they cover are: the challenge of ideocracy, the decadence of democracy, and Aron as a civic philosopher. "In Defense of Decadent Europe" combines ideological debate with economic and social analysis. Its thorough examination of Western freedom versus the Eastern communism of the recent past extends well beyond parochial debates into a basic vision of Western societies. The book will be compelling for historians, political scientists, economists, and philosophers.
Author: Marja Härmänmaa
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-19
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1137470860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley.
Author: Stephen Downes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-03
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0521767571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDownes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.
Author: Michael St John
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-11-17
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781138268845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays draw parallels between modernist and postmodernist notions of decadence. Similarities are detected between fin de siècle decadence at the end of the nineteenth century (which reaches its apotheosis in the character of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend) and depictions of decadence in our own age as we enter the new millennium.
Author: Sutherland Menzies
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2018-02-16
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781377632674
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