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The Temptation to Exist

2013-02-01 Philosophy
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Release : 2013-02-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Temptation to Exist by : E. M. Cioran

Download or read book The Temptation to Exist written by E. M. Cioran. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic. “A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning”—The Washington Post

The Fall Into Time

1970 Philosophy
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Release : 1970
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book The Fall Into Time written by Emile M. Cioran. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All Gall is Divided

1999 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1999
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book All Gall is Divided written by Emile M. Cioran. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanian-born E.M. Cioran moved to Paris at the age of 26, remaining there nearly six decades until his death in 1995. He was called "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" and "the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche"; the bleak aphorisms of All Gall Is Divided make a strong case for either appellation. "With every idea born in us," he declares early on, "something in us rots." Throughout the book, he addresses the futile attempts of man to impose meaning on a meaningless existence--"That there should be a reality hidden by appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope"--and nurses an ongoing fascination with the possibilities death holds for release from life's madness. (When the Dead Kennedys sang, "I look forward to death / This world brings me down," they might as well have been taking notes from Cioran.) Grim stuff, but presented in brilliant, crystalline form--particularly in the translation by Richard Howard, which retains Cioran's cold, detached viewpoint.

Drawn and Quartered

2012-11-13 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2012-11-13
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 967/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Drawn and Quartered written by E. M. Cioran. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant and original exponent of a rare genre, the philosophical essay. Once read, Cioran cannot fail to provoke reaction. New York Times Book...

A Short History of Decay

2012-11-13 Philosophy
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Release : 2012-11-13
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book A Short History of Decay written by E. M. Cioran. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.

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