Decadence: A Very Short Introduction by David Weir

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Decadence: A Very Short Introduction

David Weir

160 pages 2018

4 editions

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de siecle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that...

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