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…]
MIHAI POPA Abstract Cioran, Noica, Eliade or Vulcănescu relate their discourse on history to the categories of some social ontology existing before the history itself. As well as Noica and Eliade (though both will concede to the historic reality a possible meaning retaken in philosophical knowledge), Cioran „avoids” history, not trusting its categories of dynamic, … [Read more…]
VIOREL CERNICA Abstract In this paper, the author tries to investigate the origin of Cioranian thinking, in order to understand the paradoxical structure of the fragment, which is to be considered the stylistic unity of his thinking. Two senses express sufficiently this origin: the pure resistance or lucidity of the consciousness that denies God and … [Read more…]
Ștefan Bârzu Abstract: This paper focuses on highlighting the way in which the spirit of Protestantism, ultimately expressed through the conceptual spectrum of anxiety and despair is the essence of modernity. Within this line of thought there will be explored and challenged the very tension that the Protestant discourse has brought into the public life … [Read more…]