E M Cioran - Böcker

"A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone's hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison."—The New Yorker In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cior...

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'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of ti...

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This work shows E.M. Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a t...

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By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a m...

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A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the down...

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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 concer...

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By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a m...

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'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relat...

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In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task, and thus, while he perceives the world darkly,...

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In this collection of essays and epigrams, E.M. Cioran gives us portraits and evaluationswhich he calls "e;admirations"e;of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. In a...

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Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are, writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett.In History and Utopia, Cioran the monster writes of politics in its broade...

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In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task, and thus, while he perceives the world darkly,...

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Die vorliegenden beiden Essays gehören zu den berühmtesten Schriften Ciorans, sind aber schwer greifbar. In ihnen hat sich Cioran mit Autoren, denen er sich sowohl verwandt wie fremd fühlt, und mit seinen eigenen geistigen Versuchungen auseinander...

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»Das Paradoxe meines Wesens ist, daß ich eine Leidenschaft für die Existenz habe und zugleich alle meine Gedanken gegen das Leben richte.« E. M. Cioran, einer der glänzendsten französischen Essayisten und dem deutschen Publikum wohlbekannt, wird i...

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Das Buch der Täuschungen (Bukarest 1936) ist Ciorans erste und endgültige Abrechnung mit dem allgegenwärtigen Wahn, der das Dasein, ja das Sein überhaupt ermöglicht, eine Entblößung des von Trug und Trauer, Leid und Reue verschütteten, vergifteten...

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Das Denken des Schriftstellers und Philosophen Cioran lebt von äußerster Radikalität. Syllogismen sind Schlußfolgerungen. Sie gehorchen der deduktiven Methode. Vom Allgemeinen schließen sie auf das Besondere. Aus der Welterfahrung der Bitterkeit e...

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I de aforismer, essäer i miniatyr och prosa¿poetiska be¿¿traktelser som Sammanfattning av sönderfallet rymmer finner vi teman som återkommer i E. M. Ciorans författarskap: självmordet, sömnlösheten, skepticismen och nihilisme¿n, gnos¿¿¿tiska kätte...

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Hur dystert Cioran s tänkande än kan tyckas vara, leder hans reflektioner över tillvarons grundvillkor inte fram till något försök att bevisa tillvarons meningslöshet, utan handlar snarare om att använda svärtan, som reflektionen över existensens ...

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