Where have we seen this story before? An influential European writer and thinker, celebrated in his mature years for works of sophisticated philosophical nuance, turns out to have been an anti-Semitic ...

Romanian-born philoshoper Emil Cioran was not famous in his native country during his lifetime, but individuals and institutions from Bucharest fought fiercely over his belongings this week. Pessimism ...

Hegel wrote in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right that the owl of Minerva flies only at night. It hoots at insomniacs. I know. I’m one. Bruises, red eyes, and research remind me that insomnia ...

April 8 marks the 100th birthday of French-language aphorist Emil Cioran, and the celebrations in Paris include the publication of ‘Cioran: Mystical Short Prayers’ a philosophical appreciation by ...

Romanian poet, philosopher and editor Petreu shows in this dense but fresh work that many Romanian intellectuals were seduced by fascist ideology during the interwar years—and that philosopher Cioran, ...

Wishing to defeat or silence a fear of death and not being able to find support from religion, neighbours, culture and ideas, turns Emil Cioran towards the philosophy of the East. Buddhism, which is ...

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EM Cioran is the most addictive writer I've ever encountered. At the height of my fixation, anything I read that wasn't him felt anodyne, trivial and longwinded. Born in Romania, Cioran wrote most of ...