Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: despair, heights
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226106713
ISBN-13: 9780226106717

Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown’s tricks, a whole circus of the heights."On the Heights of Despair shows 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 theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy bot

Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: despair, heights
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1992-06-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0226106705
ISBN-13: 9780226106700

Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self- described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown’s tricks, a whole circus of the heights." On the Heights of Despair shows 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 theoretician of despair, for whom writing an

Author: E M Cioran
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: aphorisms, divided, gall
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1999-08-25
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1559704713
ISBN-13: 9781559704717

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 mig

Author: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: exist, temptation
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-07-20
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0226106756
ISBN-13: 9780226106755

This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. E.M. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. "An intellectual bombshell that blasts away at all kinds of cant, sham and conventionality. . . ". --Jonah Raskin, L.A.

Author: E M Cioran
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: trouble
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1559704624
ISBN-13: 9781559704625

Author: E M Cioran
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: quartered, drawn
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1559704632
ISBN-13: 9781559704632

Author: E M Cioran
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: admirations, anathemas
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1559704616
ISBN-13: 9781559704618