Screen LibraryThe decadent society : how we became the victims of our own success /
The best-selling author of Bad Religion presents a compelling portrait of how the superficial turbulence of today's world has become defined by economic stagnation, political stalemates, demographic decline and cultural exhaustion. --Publisher.
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Avid Reader Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: |
The best-selling author of Bad Religion presents a compelling portrait of how the superficial turbulence of today's world has become defined by economic stagnation, political stalemates, demographic decline and cultural exhaustion. --Publisher. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 258 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781476785240 1476785244 |
| Index Number: | CB428 |
| CLC: | G119 |
| Call Number: | G119/D741 |
| 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. |