CONSTANTIN STOENESCU Abstract My aim in this article is to do both a survey and an assessment of Berkeley skeptical argument against the materiality of the word. I suppose that a historical understanding of this argument as a strong critique of Locke’s empiricist theory should be the right approach. In the same time, I take … [Read more…]
HORIA PĂTRAȘCU Abstract Based mainly on Cioran’s first two books, the article tackles the issue of suffering – a fundament in delineating the main attitudes in front of life – and of its transfiguration in love, mercy and beatitude. AnnalsUnibuc-2011-60-01Pătrașcu
MARCEL CHELBA Abstract The philosophy, in the case of Cioran, has therapeutic aspirations rather than conceptual ones; his metaphysical insolence aims, however, not at a simple aesthetic of lamentation, but at a metaphysics of morals turned upside down. In my fragments I try to illustrate and discuss this judgment. AnnalsUnibuc-2011-60-01Chelba
GEORGE CHIRIȚĂ Abstract Morality, paradox, style, violence, exteriority are common themes for Levinas and Cioran that go in different directions – thus Levinas reveals Cioran. The author discusses this idea in his essay. AnnalsUnibuc-2011-60-01Chiriță
EMIL CIORAN EDITOR MARIN DIACONU AnnalsUnibuc-2011-60-01CioranDiaconu
DRAGOȘ POPESCU Abstract In the present paper, the author examines Emil Cioran’s essay from 1957, Essai sur la pensée réactionnaire: à propos de Joseph de Maistre, and compares the beliefs in Divine Providence of the Sankt-Petesburg-exiled thinker with Cioran’s ideas on marxist ideology and communism. AnnalsUnibuc-2011-60-01Popescu
CRISTIAN BERȚI Abstract This paper will try to offer a new perspective on a big concept from the system of Emil Cioran, that is the pain. Cioran talks about physical and spiritual sufferance and usually this feeling is perceived like a bad one, with horrible consequences. We will try instead to see how this feeling … [Read more…]
CONSTANTIN ASLAM Abstract It is my intention to argue in this article, following a series of Romanian writings appeared between 1940-1943, that Emil Cioran pursues his master, Nae Ionescu, on his program of radical thinking. The latter, known as the “Professor of doubt”, had a decisive role in changing the cultural conventions in Romania and … [Read more…]
VIOREL VIZUREANU Abstract Our paper aims to scrutinize the issue of salvation in some of the works of youth of Emil Cioran. We find, first, that, for Cioran, salvation is an imperative beyond morals, nourished on despair. It is not a solution because a solution is a response to a set of identical or even … [Read more…]
MARIUS ION Abstract In this essay I intend to tackle the lesser-known dimension of Cioran metaphysics, the sacred. Key concepts in his single work dedicated to seemingly eccentric issues Tears and Saints are: boredom and ecstasy, melancholy and music, despair and tears sprung from a broken heart to crying. Through his thoughts or lamentations, Cioran … [Read more…]