The decadent society : how we became the victims of our own success /
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition and dead ends. The Decadent Society explains what happens when a rich and powerful society ceases advancing, how the combination of wealt...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Avid Reader Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The closing of the frontier
- The Four Horsemen. Stagnation ; Sterility ; Sclerosis ; Repetition
- Sustainable decadence. Comfortably numb ; A kindly despotism ; Waiting for the barbarians ; Giving decadence its due
- The deaths of decadence. Catastrophe ; Renaissance ; Providence.