Product Description: In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident...read more

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Product Description: In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident...read more

Essays examine a variety of topics including philosophy, Western civilization, fiction, mysticism, and Jewish history

Essays discuss democracy, the history of Russia, tyranny, hate and revenge, utopias, and the mythological golden age (view table of contents)

Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights."On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy both share the "lyrical virtues" that alone lead to a metaphysical revelation."No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."—Bill Marx, Boston Phoenix"The dark, existential despair of Romanian philosopher Cioran's short meditations is paradoxically bracing and life-affirming. . . . Puts him in the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"This is self-pity as epigram, the sort of dyspeptic pronouncement that gets most people kicked out of bed but that has kept Mr. Cioran going for the rest of his life."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review

Product Description: By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints...read more

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The French maverick philosopher and author of A Short History of Decay and The Trouble with Being Born shares his thoughts on the contradictions and confusions of human life, in the first English translation of this work. (view table of contents)

Product Description: «Es evidente que, de no haberme puesto a escribir este libro a los veintiún años, me hubiese suicidado. En el estado en que me hallaba en esa época, sólo podía escribir un libro excesivo y que en cierto momento raya en el delirio...read more

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Product Description: La caída en el tiempo, el quinto de los libros de E.M. Cioran escritos en francés, se publicó por primera vez en 1964. Es uno de los textos más desencantados, diríamos casi amargos, pero también más hondamente lúcidos, más implacables con lo que llamamos condición humana...read more

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Product Description: Esta nueva edicion ampliada de Ejercicios de admiracion contiene 16 textos mas no solo que su edicion anterior en castellano, sino tambien que la edicion francesa original. Se trata, en su gran mayoria, de articulos y prefacios que Cioran escribio a lo largo de los anos sobre otros escritores y sobre la creacion en general...read more

Product Description: El ocaso del pensamiento es el quinto y penultimo libro de E.M. Cioran escrito en rumano. Y tambien su libro menos conocido. Tras entregar a su editor en Bucarest el manuscrito de De lagrimas y de santos (marginales 100), en 1937 Cioran se traslado, antes de su publicacion, a Paris con una beca del Instituto Frances de Bucarest, ignorando el escandalo que causaria en su pais este libro que los criticos llegaron a tachar de «sacrilego»...read more

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