“Karl Jaspers’ Conceptions of the Meaning of Life” – Kurt SALAMUN

EXISTENZ - An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts, vol. 1, nr. 1-2, Fall 2006 Abstract: The thesis is explicated, that we can finally distinguish three conceptions of the meaning of life in Jaspers' philosophy. This thesis is grounded on the distinction of two different periods of Jaspers' philosophizing: an early period…

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“To the Nothingnesses Themselves: Husserl’s Influence on Sartre’s Notion of Nothingness” – Simon GUSMAN

Taylor & Francis Online, 16 October, 2017 ABSTRACT: In this article I argue that Sartre’s notions of nothingness and “negatity” are not, as he presents it, primarily reactions to Hegel and Heidegger. Instead, they are a reaction to an ongoing struggle with Husserl’s notion of intentionality and related notions. I do this by comparing the…

“«Channels of Interference»: Maurice Blanchot and Emil Cioran” – Arleen IONESCU

Primerjalna Knjizevnost, Ljubljana, 45(1):189-208, May, 2022 ABSTRACT: Drawing on the concept of “literary interference” developed by the pioneer of poly-system theory, Itamar Even-Zohar, and expanded by other scholars, as well as on various interpretations of intertextuality, this article compares two twentieth century thinkers: the French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist Maurice Blanchot and the Romanian-born…

“The Benefits of Being a Suicidal Curmudgeon: Emil Cioran on Killing Yourself” – Glenn M. TRUJILLO JR

Southwest Philosophy Review 37(1): 219-228, 2021 Abstract: Emil Cioran offers novel arguments against suicide. He assumes a meaningless world. But in such a world, he argues, suicide and death would be equally as meaningless as life or anything else. Suicide and death are as cumbersome and useless as meaning and life. Yet Cioran also argues…

“Death withouth death: Kierkegaard and Cioran about agony” – Ştefan BOLEA

In: Adriana Teodorescu (Ed.), Death within the Text. Social, Philosophical and Aesthetic Approaches to Literature (pp.72-83). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. Abstract: The following paper is concerned with the description of “agony” at Kierkegaard and Cioran. Taking into consideration that both authors have common traits as marginal philosophers and advocates of a mixture of existentialism and…

“E. M. Cioran, Nihilist and Ecstatic” (Robert Wicks)

Life and works In a brief autobiographical sketch, Emile Mihai Cioran described himself as follows: I was born on the 8th April 1911 in Rasinari, a village in the Carpathians, where my father was a Greek Orthodox priest. From 1920 to 1928 I attended the Sibiu grammar school. From 1929 to 1931 I studied at…

“Cioran: Existentialism, Gnosticism, Nihilism” – Ioan P. CULIANU

Existentialism We will not insist on analyzing the relations between existentialism and Gnosticism established by Hans Jonas. I have already done this elsewhere, in detail (Gnosticismo, pp. 119 sq.). Gnosticism and existentialism resemble the phenomenology of the being-in-the-world, which is "pro-iectation" (Geworfenheit), abandonment, forgetfulness, inauthenticity. But while this condition forms, for the Gnostic, only the…

Cioran, il mistico dell’era post-Dio. In dialogo con Mirko Integlia su «Tormented by God: The Mystical Nihilism of Emil Cioran»

ORIZZONTI CULTURALI ITALO-ROMENI, n. 12, dicembre 2019, anno IX È stato pubblicato da poco un nuovo libro su Cioran, uno importantissimo, a giudicare dal tema e dall’approccio: Tormented by God: The Mystical Nihilism of Emil Cioran (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2019), scritto dal filosofo e teologo Mirko Integlia. Un’approfondita analisi storico-ermeneutica di questo che l’esegeta concepisce come…

“The Nihilist as a Not-Man. An Analysis of Psychological Inhumanity” – Ştefan BOLEA

Philobiblon - Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2015 [PDF] This paper is a result of a doctoral research made possible by the financial support of the Sectoral Operational Programme for Human Resources Development 2007–2013, cofinanced by the European Social Fund, under the project POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132400 - ―Young successful researchers…

“Consciousness… the dagger in the flesh. An essay on Cioran” – Awet Moges

HYPERBOREANS, December 14, 2010 After 7 years, I was burned out by philosophy, yet I continued to haunt the philosophy section in search for anything radical and profound. Amidst the expected titles commonly found at any bookstore, sat A Short History of Decay. I pulled it off the shelf in the faint hopes of killing…