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Butler Shaffer has, over the course of several years, written 51 essays observing the dissolution of Western culture and civilization. They have been assembled here as his reflections on the decline and fall of Western civilization.
Butler Shaffer has, over the course of several years, written 51 essays observing the dissolution of Western culture and civilization. They have been assembled here as his reflections on the decline and fall of Western civilization.
Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the st…
Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable. Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the st…
Réédition du premier essai de Cioran (1949). Obnubilé par le déclin de l'Occident, considérant les idéologies et les doctrines comme des "farces sanglantes", cet auteur a sans doute droit au titre de premier "Nouveau philosophe". Une pensée lucide, cynique, qu'on comprend mieux …
'The Rule of Law and its Enemies' is an attempt to explain what it is that makes us human - how we come together to build our societies and how we succeed or fail in making the structures that allow us to be happy, secure and fulfilled. In a rapidly changing world, there can be …
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour. The author argues that our institutions - the intricate frameworks within which a …
Explores the historical development of American culture and how elements of what has made the United States a leading player in world affairs, including economic liberalism and free enterprise, have ultimately contributed to its decline.
