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  On the Heights of Despair (Paperback) By (author) E.m. Cioran, Translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

  

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  Short Description for On the Heights of DespairThis work shows Emil 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.
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  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Published: 01 October 1996
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Phenomenology & Existentialism | Non-Western Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9780226106717 ISBN 10: 0226106713
  • Sales rank: 93,612

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• This work shows E.M. 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.