On the heights of despair
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On the heights of despair
University of Chicago Press, 1992
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Pe culmile disperării
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Translation of: Pe culmile disperării
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780226106700
内容説明
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 both share the "lyrical virtues" that alone lead to a metaphysical revelation. "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity...His writing ...is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."--Bill Marx, Boston Phoenix "The dark, existential despair of Romanian philosopher Cioran's short meditations is paradoxically bracing and life-affirming...Puts him in the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "This is self-pity as epigram, the sort of dyspeptic pronouncement that gets most people kicked out of bed but that has kept Mr.
Cioran going for the rest of his life."--Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review Emil M. Cioran (1911-1995) is the author of numerous works, including The Fall into Time, A Short History of Decay, and Tears and Saints..
目次
Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagining Cioran On Being Lyrical How Distant Everything Is! On Not Wanting to Live The Passion for the Absurd The World and I Weariness and Agony Despair and the Grotesque The Premonition of Madness On Death Melancholy Nothing Is Important Ecstasy The World in Which Nothing Is Solved The Contradictory and the Inconsequential On Sadness Total Dissatisfaction The Bath of Fire Disintegration On the Reality of the Body I Do Not Know On Individual and Cosmic Loneliness Apocalypse The Monopoly of Suffering Absolute Lyricism The Meaning of Grace The Vanity of Compassion Eternity and Morality Moment and Eternity History and Eternity Not to Be a Man Anymore Magic and Fatality Unimaginable Joy The Ambiguity of Suffering All Is Dust Enthusiasm as a Form of Love Light and Darkness Renunciation The Blessings of Insomnia On the Transubstantiation of Love Man, the Insomniac Animal Truth, What a Word! The Beauty of Flames The Paucity of Wisdom The Return to Chaos Irony and Self-Irony On Poverty The Flight from the Cross The Cult of Infinity Transfiguration of Banality The Burden of Sadness Degradation through Work The Sense of Endings The Satanic Principle of Suffering An Indirect Animal Impossible Truth Subjectivity Homo... Love in Brief Nothing Matters The Sources of Evil Beauty's Magic Tricks Man's Inconsistency Capitulation Facing Silence The Double and His Art Nonsense E. M. Cioran: A Short Chronology
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:pbk ISBN 9780226106717
内容説明
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 both share the "lyrical virtues" that alone lead to a metaphysical revelation.
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