E.M. Cioran - my #1 thinker
My tenure as TeaNTea wouldn't be complete without a post about this guy. And to be sure after this account i won't come back in another guise.
Cioran is the perfect source outdoing even the prophet of the ubermensch. His vocabulary is exotic and his thoughts are to me persuasive like hardly noone else's is. Ironic, disarmingly contradictory and brilliant. I treat him more of a prose poet than a traditional philosopher, all my favorite thinkers have this trait, and all of those i detest don't have this trait of being eloquent, and fluid in their expressions. All of these books i love most also share this quality for me at least - i am never done with them. Alot of people read something all the way through and then move onto something else and rarely come back to that which has been finished. These sorts for me are like the bible for believers who require constancy in the word. These are my sources of light, sustenance, and so on. And this Romanian, who emigrated to France is the supreme one, never to be topped. His books comment and elucidate upon a great many of the previous lights in history, adding illumination on obscure doctrines and challenging one's preconceived notions. I remember sharing a portion of his book to someone and the reply was "he's an idiot!!" This is a response when someone is expecting a traditional display of intelligence. Cioran would be to me boring if he was like that. He was unique, and his thought lived, iow's it pulsated and wasn't always of the same vein.
There is 11 volumes i have of his, which are the following in chronological order:
1. On the Heights of Despair - 1934
2. Tears & Saints - 1937
3. A Short History of Decay - 1949
4. All Gall is Divided - 1952
5. The Temptation to Exist - 1956
6. History & Utopia - 1960
7. The Fall Into Time - 1964
8. The New Gods - 1969
9. The Trouble With Being Born - 1973
10. Drawn & Quartered - 1979
11. Anathemas & Admirations - 1986
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Cioran is the perfect source outdoing even the prophet of the ubermensch. His vocabulary is exotic and his thoughts are to me persuasive like hardly noone else's is. Ironic, disarmingly contradictory and brilliant. I treat him more of a prose poet than a traditional philosopher, all my favorite thinkers have this trait, and all of those i detest don't have this trait of being eloquent, and fluid in their expressions. All of these books i love most also share this quality for me at least - i am never done with them. Alot of people read something all the way through and then move onto something else and rarely come back to that which has been finished. These sorts for me are like the bible for believers who require constancy in the word. These are my sources of light, sustenance, and so on. And this Romanian, who emigrated to France is the supreme one, never to be topped. His books comment and elucidate upon a great many of the previous lights in history, adding illumination on obscure doctrines and challenging one's preconceived notions. I remember sharing a portion of his book to someone and the reply was "he's an idiot!!" This is a response when someone is expecting a traditional display of intelligence. Cioran would be to me boring if he was like that. He was unique, and his thought lived, iow's it pulsated and wasn't always of the same vein.
There is 11 volumes i have of his, which are the following in chronological order:
1. On the Heights of Despair - 1934
2. Tears & Saints - 1937
3. A Short History of Decay - 1949
4. All Gall is Divided - 1952
5. The Temptation to Exist - 1956
6. History & Utopia - 1960
7. The Fall Into Time - 1964
8. The New Gods - 1969
9. The Trouble With Being Born - 1973
10. Drawn & Quartered - 1979
11. Anathemas & Admirations - 1986
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