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On the heights of despair /

"This book saved my life." So recalls the Romanian philosopher E.M. Cioran about a book that meditates on madness and death, the absurdity of existence, and the agony of consciousness. Cioran finds in our darkest fears not only reasons to continue living but also the comic, absurd humor in...

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Основен автор: Cioran, E. M. 1911-1995.
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Romanian
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Предмети:
Philosophy.
Онлайн достъп: Publisher description
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Съдържание:
  • 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.

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