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A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"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-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 al ...Show more
On the Heights of Despair by E M Cioran
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
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 theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy b ...Show more
The New Gods by E M Cioran
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Dubbed "Nietzsche without his hammer" by literary critic James Wood, the Romanian philosopher E. M. Cioran is known as much for his profound pessimism and fatalistic approach as for the lyrical, raging prose with which he communicates them. Unlike many of his other works, such as "On the Heights of Desp ...Show more
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'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 relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed ...Show more
The Trouble with Being Born by E M Cioran
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style ...Show more
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