To my mind, the two writers who come closest to the ideal (in the descriptive sense) of nihilism are Paul Feyerabend and Emil Cioran.Feyerabend (1975) was concerned with the non-existence (and ...

As the centenary of the Romanian-born French writer Emil Cioran winds down, further attention honors the author who died in 1995, including “All Gall is Divided: The Aphorisms of E. M. Cioran ...

Don Paterson on Emil Cioran's 'The Trouble With Being Born' Friday 30 January 2004 01:00 GMT. Comments. Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more. Support Now.

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 ...

In “In Praise of Failure,” he looks at how various thinkers — Seneca, Mohandas Gandhi, Simone Weil, Emil Cioran, Yukio Mishima — detached themselves from an obsessive drive for worldly ...

To confront ideas so opposed to the aspirations of liberal democracy, so unapologetically anti-Semitic, elitist, and authoritarian, startles one at first. But then the encounter stirs curiosity, until ...