“Cioran’s clinamen”: a female Muslim reading – interview with Daria LEBEDEVA

Daria Lebedeva was born in the city of Odessa, Ukraine, and presently lives in Sweden. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Agata Bielik-Robson, with a thesis about Cioran’s clinamen: a case study of a philosophical influence (2012). It’s…

“Cioran, Bach, God, and Isabelle Huppert’s Endless Je Ne Sais Quoi” – Teia BRÎNZĂ

Capital Cultural, România, 11/06/2018 In 2001, the legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert showed up at Cannes dressed in a vaporous black dress and with a temporary tattoo. The black lettering spanning across her arms and back read a quote from Emil Cioran: Dieu peut remercier Bach, parce que Bach est la preuve de l’existence de Dieu*.…

“Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears” – Tom LUTZ

Crying also has a powerful effect in the story, for Anat's tears bring Ba'al back to life In the Egyptian story of the death of the god Osiris, something comparable happens: the goddess his finds her brother Osiris dead and weeps over him. Her tears, too, bring the dead god back to life. Similar stories…

“Only from the heart do we know when something changes”: interview with Simona Constantinovici about the Dictionary of Cioranian terms

“The Dictionary of Cioranian Terms intends to be a sort of invitation to read the philosopher in a different way, to put him in a light that extracts its fascicles from the substance of the words, from their uninterrupted story, impacting a future that stands, as a prey, lurking it.”Simona Constantinovici Simona Constantinovici (born 1968)…

“Cioran: The Temptation to Believe” (Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

The "death of the author" is a notion I have never become used to. Time and again, when I open the pages of an engaging book, the "dead" author comes back to haunt me: as if reading were a spell that brings him back, his hovering spirit is always before my mind's eye. And while…