“E. M. Cioran and the self-image of the modern philosopher in the broken mirror” (Florin Oprescu)

International Workshop on the Historiography of Philosophy: Representations and Cultural Constructions, 2012. Abstract: he illusion of the author's intentionality "in the carpet", according to Henry James's allegory, is lethal for hermeneutics. Are there cases of authors whose image is discretely hidden in the texture of their work, even when it is philosophical? Critics tried a…