The Temptation To Exist

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628724950

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The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran Pdf

This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic. “A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning”—The Washington Post

Author : Emile M. Cioran
Publisher : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X000532841

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The Fall Into Time by Emile M. Cioran Pdf

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611456967

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Drawn and Quartered by E. M. Cioran Pdf

"A brilliant and original exponent of a rare genre, the philosophical essay. Once read, Cioran cannot fail to provoke reaction.”—New York Times Book Review

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781611457469

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All Gall Is Divided by E. M. Cioran Pdf

Now in paperback, an "antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation" (Washington Post). E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" who "combines the compassion of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning" (Washington Post). All Gall Is Divided is the second book Cioran published in French after moving from his native Romania and establishing himself in Paris. It revealed him as an aphorist in a long tradition descending from the ancient Greeks through La Rochefoucault but with a gift for lacerating, subversively off-kilter insights, a twentieth-century nose for the absurdities of the human condition, and what Baudelaire called "spleen." The aphorisms collected here address themes from the atrophy of utterance and the condition of the West to the abyss, solitude, time, religion, music, the vitality of love, history, and the void. The award-winning poet and translator Richard Howard has characterized them as "manic humor, howls of pain, and a vestige of tears," but, as he notes too, in these expressions of the philosopher's existential estrangement, there glows "a certain sweetness for all of what Cioran calls 'amertume.'"

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628724660

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History and Utopia by E. M. Cioran Pdf

“Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are,” writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett. In History and Utopia, Cioran the monster writes of politics in its broadest sense, of history, and of the utopian dream. His views are, to say the least, provocative. In one essay he casts a scathing look at democracy, that “festival of mediocrity”; in another he turns his uncompromising gaze on Russia, its history, its evolution, and what he calls “the virtues of liberty.” In the dark shadow of Stalin and Hitler, he writes of tyrants and tyranny with rare lucidity and convincing logic. In “Odyssey of Rancor,” he examines the deep-rooted dream in all of us to “hate our neighbors,” to take immediate and irremediable revenge. And, in the final essay, he analyzes the notion of the “golden age,” the biblical Eden, the utopia of so many poets and thinkers.

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628724943

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A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran Pdf

E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decay dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces.

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0226106713

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On the Heights of Despair by E. M. Cioran Pdf

"Born of a terrible insomnia wchich E. M. Cioran called "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 metaphysical revelations. An exorcism of despair, this book offers insights into the ironic anguish of Cioran's philosophic mind while providing fascinating information on his early development as a writer and thinker."

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226106748

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Tears and Saints by E. M. Cioran Pdf

"(Cioran's) statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning".--WASHINGTON POST. In TEARS AND SAINTS, Cioran touches on nearly all the themes that would preoccupy the writer over the course of his career. Self-consciously perverse, this collection will fascinate anyone interested in saints, mysticism, philosophy, the history of Christianity, or the ultimate strangeness of the sacred.

Author : Dave Connis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781510707320

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The Temptation of Adam by Dave Connis Pdf

Adam Hawthorne is fine. Yeah, his mother left, his older sister went with her, and his dad would rather read Nicholas Sparks novels than talk to him. And yeah, he spends his nights watching self-curated porn video playlists. But Adam is fine. When a family friend discovers Adam’s porn addiction, he’s forced to join an addiction support group: the self-proclaimed Knights of Vice. He goes because he has to, but the honesty of the Knights starts to slip past his defenses. Combine that with his sister’s out-of-the-blue return and the attention of a girl he meets in an AA meeting, and all the work Adam has put into being fine begins to unravel. Now Adam has to face the causes and effects of his addiction, before he loses his new friends, his prodigal sister, and his almost semi-sort-of girlfriend.

Author : Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253003454

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Searching for Cioran by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston Pdf

Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. This move led to his transformation into one of the most famous French moralists of the 20th century. As an enthusiast of the anti-rationalist philosophies widely popular in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, Cioran became an advocate of the fascistic Iron Guard. In her quest to understand how Cioran and other brilliant young intellectuals could have been attracted to such passionate national revival movements, Zarifopol-Johnston, herself a Romanian emigré, sought out the aging philosopher in Paris in the early 1990s and retraced his steps from his home village of Rasinari and youthful years in Sibiu, through his student years in Bucharest and Berlin, to his early residence in France. Her portrait of Cioran is complemented by an engaging autobiographical account of her rediscovery of her own Romanian past.

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628724967

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The Trouble with Being Born by E. M. Cioran Pdf

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." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering, and the temptation to silence. Through sharp observation and patient contemplation, Cioran cuts to the heart of the human experience. “A love of Cioran creates an urge to press his writing into someone’s hand, and is followed by an equal urge to pull it away as poison.”—The New Yorker “In the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."—Publishers Weekly "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."—Boston Phoenix

Author : Nikki Sloane
Publisher : Shady Creek Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Temptation by Nikki Sloane Pdf

Vance Hale has everything. A ridiculous amount of money, an Ivy-league education, and a 1,000-watt smile that can charm the designer dress right off a girl. He’s also going to have a future that includes me—whether he wants it or not. I don’t care that he’s trying to reform his playboy ways, or that he made a bet to go 90 days without the touch of a woman. I’ve spent the last decade planning my revenge and I need a partner in crime. This gorgeous, cunning man should do fine. So, we strike a deal. I’ll help get him across the finish line and he’ll bring me into his world among the Cape Hill elite. Our relationship may be fake, but our chemistry is shockingly real. One innocent kiss and I’m struggling to hold up my end of the bargain. Wanting him wasn’t part of the plan when everything else I desire is within my grasp. The only problem? Neither of us is any good at resisting temptation.

Author : Francis J. Remler
Publisher : Sophia Inst Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1928832393

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How to Resist Temptation by Francis J. Remler Pdf

This book helps you prepare yourself so that, when temptations assail you, you'll be ready. You'll learn ways to be on guard against often-unrecognized causes of temptation. You'll discover how to keep memories of past sins from tempting you now, and you'll even come to see why God allows temptation in the first place.

Author : Eugene Thacker
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781912248209

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Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker Pdf

A collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism. Composed of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Eugene Thacker’s Infinite Resignation traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it is between a philosophical position and a bad attitude. By turns melancholic, misanthropic, and tinged with gallows humor, Thacker’s writing tenuously hovers over that point at which the thought of futility becomes the futility of thought.

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611456882

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Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran Pdf

“Instead of accumulating wisdom, he has shed certainties. Instead of reaching out to touch someone, he has fastidiously cultivated his exemplary solitude. If he is an aphorist, he's one who resembles Nietzsche, not Kahlil Gibran.”—Edmund White, The New York Times