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reviviscence

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reviviscence [ˌrɛvɪˈvɪsəns rɪˈvɪvɪsəns]
n
Rare restoration to life or animation; revival
[from Latin, from revīviscere come back to life, related to vīvere to live; see revive]
reviviscent  adj


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Unless one grants credence to the small but fashionable set that has of late been predicting a reviviscence of Christianity in Europe (in gay defiance of all tangible evidence), it seems certain that Europe will continue to sink into its demographic twilight and increasingly to look like the land of the "last men" that Nietzsche prophesied would follow the "death of God": a realm of sanctimony, petty, sensualisms, pettier rationalisms, and a vaguely euthanasiac addiction to comfort.
As a caveat, the Coda or Part Four of the text departs from the periodicity schema and focuses on the Pan-African axis which the author entitles "Restoration and Reviviscence.
 
 
 
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