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Decadence

In this Very Short Introduction, David Weir explores the conflicting attitudes towards modernity present in decadent culture by examining the difference between aesthetic decadence-the excess of artifice-and social decadence, which involves excess in a variety of forms, whether perversely pleasurable or gratuitously cruel.


Author:

  • David Weir

Narrator:

  • Graham Halstead

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 4 h 37 min

Language:

English

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