E M Cioran - Böcker

I de aforismer, essäer i miniatyr och prosapoetiska betraktelser som Sammanfattning av sönderfallet rymmer finner vi teman som återkommer i Cioran s författarskap: självmordet, sömnlösheten, skepticismen och nihilismen, gnostiska kätterier, religi...

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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 rela...

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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 downfall of th...

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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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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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'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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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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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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