"Não é no Uno, mas no múltiplo, que respiramos". (2010-2023)
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. . . . The compulsion to preach is so rooted in us that it emerges from depths unknown to the instinct for self-preservation. Each of us awaits his moment in order to propose something—anything. He has… Continue lendo “The Anti-Prophet” – CIORAN
“The man who unmasks his fictions renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depths.” BRAIN PICKINGS, 18 February 2019 “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone… Continue lendo “Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself” (Maria Popova)
HTMLGIANT - The Internet Literature Magazine Blog of the Future, April 12th, 2013 Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran Arcade Publishing, Nov 2012 272 pages / $14.95 E.M. Cioran’s work indicates the caustic philosophical consequences of sleepless rumination upon insignificance and failure. It is thick with anxiety, but retains buoyancy, the sick humour of… Continue lendo An admiration of F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Freedom is the supreme good only for those animated by the will to heresy."Cioran, Syllogismes de l'amertume The high stakes of any modern or contemporary discussion of original sin immediately become apparent: quickly divorced from questions of belief, original sin becomes the base of a political theology that veers toward tyranny. The authoritarian conclusions fall back, however, into a… Continue lendo “De Maistre, Baudelaire, and Original Sin: between Tyranny and Heresy as Radical Freedom” – Joseph ACQUISTO
“Better to never have been born!” This pessimistic declaration has been made at various points in the history of human thought, becoming a true philosophical system beginning with Arthur Schopenhauer in the nineteenth century. It was repeated by various philosophers in subsequent decades, though rarely with the tragic passion of Emil Cioran (1911-1995). A solitary… Continue lendo “Tormented by God: The Mystical Nihilism of Emil Cioran” – Mirko INTEGLIA
Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists. Series on Philosophy, Psychology, Theology and Journalism, Volume 3, Number 1-2/2011 Abstract. The Cioranian stylistics seems to belong only to a choice of the author, to a judgment of “efficiency” concerning the expressing of the thoughts, assumed, in fact, by the author, in some of his interviews or… Continue lendo “The Cioranian ‘Fragment’ and the Structure of Gnostic Representations” (Viorel Cernica)
Theology Today, 75(3), 391-398 Abstract: Over several decades during the second half of the last century, the Romanian-born Parisian intellectual, E.M. Cioran penned a series of uneasy works whose despondent obsession with God is matched only by their utter disavowal of the reality of the divine. Wrestling pessimistically with nihilism in world forged by chronic insomnia,… Continue lendo “Insomnolent Anathemas – E.M. Cioran’s Unbelieving Gift to Theology” (Philip G. Ziegler)
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, vol. 38: Iss. 1, Article 2, 2014. Abstract: While, at first glance, there seems to be very little room in the thought of E.M. Cioran for the notion of salvation, a closer look reveals that Cioran returns constantly to the vocabulary and the concept of redemption. This article… Continue lendo “Falling into Salvation in Cioran” (Joseph Acquisto)
Human and Social Studies (HSS) - The Journal of "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University from Iasi, vol. 2, Issue 3 (Oct 2013), pp. 124-139. By Sergio García Guillem - Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences of Education, University of Valencia, Avenida Blanco Ibáñez 13, Nivel 4, Valencia, 46010, Spain Abstract: The discovery of F.M. Dostoyevsky by young E. M.… Continue lendo “The «clairvoyants des abîmes»: Cioran, Reader of F.M. Dostoievsky” (Sergio García Guillem)
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