Emil Cioran and Bruno Taut: Utopia as a flight from progress?

Author(s):  
Andrea Franceschini Paolo Vanini
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2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Cristóbal Cea Bustamante
Keyword(s):  
Il Y A ◽  

<p>Desde el pensamiento ontológico de cautiverio que realizó Emmanuel Lévinas, es decir, desde su concepto de Il y a y su descripción de la experiencia más próxima al ser anónimo e impersonal, el insomnio, el presente artículo tiene el propósito de efectuar una conversación o un acercamiento con el pensamiento pesimista de Emil Cioran.<br />Todo para graficar el horror de esta patología y de la importancia del sueño o el inconsciente frente a ella, presentado este, el inconsciente, como una salida necesaria.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-228
Author(s):  
G. M. Trujillo ◽  
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Emil Cioran offers novel arguments against suicide. He assumes a meaningless world. But in such a world, he argues, suicide and death would be equally as meaningless as life or anything else. Suicide and death are as cumbersome and useless as meaning and life. Yet Cioran also argues that we should contemplate suicide to live better lives. By contemplating suicide, we confront the deep suffering inherent in existence. This humbles us enough to allow us to change even the deepest aspects of ourselves. Yet it also reminds us that our peculiar human ability—being able to contemplate suicide—sets us above anything else in nature or in the heavens. This paper assembles and defends a view of suicide written about in Cioran’s aphorisms and essays.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Ștefan Bolea

The similitude between anxiety and death is the starting point of Paul Tillich's analysis from The Courage To Be, his famous theological and philosophical reply to Martin Heidegger's Being And Time. Not only Tillich and Heidegger are concerned with the connection between anxiety and death but also other proponents of both existentialism and nihilism like Friedrich Nietzsche, Emil Cioran and Lev Shestov. Tillich observes that "anxiety puts frightening masks" over things and perhaps this definition is its finest contribution to the spectacular phenomenology of anxiety. Moreover, Tillich has some illuminating insights about the anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness, which are important for the history of the existential philosophy. It is interesting how the protestant theologian tries to answer to Heidegger: while the German philosopher asserted that we must avoid fear and we have to embrace anxiety as a route to personal authenticity, Tillich notes that we should transform anxiety into fear, because courage is more likely to "abolish" fear.


2014 ◽  
pp. 147-155
Author(s):  
Julie Assier
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In Fuir, Linda Lê features two characters – a vagrant nicknamed “Le Japonais” and the narrator, exiled to an unnamed Asian country – that seem to be re-cognized for what they are : lonely beings in search of an alter ego. Their improbable than astonishing meeting marks the beginning of a wandering both geographical and mental; the reader follows through the streets, alleys, driveways, sidepaths, pedestrian streets of indeterminate city symbolizing the maze of life whose meaning is to be decoded. The figure of the vagabond reflects the obsessions and concerns of the writer on his anguish of living. It also crystallizes its founding and formative reading, including the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran and the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman who greatly influenced in the writing and the construction of her novel. Fuir is both a question about the absurdity of life and a metaphor for the condition of the exiled writer.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-242
Author(s):  
David Paigneau

In the theological field, the term apophatism refers to a negative approach of defining God by what he is not rather than by what he is. This way of thinking can be applied to the definition of the writer’s Me as it appears in the literary works, since the Me, although being a factual obviousness, can only be defined by being opposed to anything it is not. Maurice Barrès, Emil Cioran and Philippe Muray approached, through this oppositional way, the question of the writer’s Litterary Me; this comparative study will attempt to confront their respective approaches to the Me and to its inscription in the historical time. En théologie, l’apophatisme désigne une approche négative consistant à définir Dieu par ce qu’il n’est pas plutôt que par ce qu’il est. Par analogie, cette méthode de pensée peut s’appliquer à la définition du Moi de l’écrivain tel qu’il apparaît dans l’œuvre littéraire, puisque le Moi, quoiqu’étant une évidence factuelle, ne se laisse définir que négativement, par opposition à tout ce qui est autre que lui-même. Maurice Barrès, Emil Cioran et Philippe Muray ont en commun de s’être penchés, à travers cette approche négative, sur la question du Moi littéraire de l’écrivain; cette étude comparatiste tentera de confronter leurs écritures respectives du Moi et de son inscription dans le temps historique.


Author(s):  
Vasile Chira

This article aims to analyze music from a philosophical and theological perspective, using the principles of multi- and transdisciplinary methodology. After a brief introduction, which presents the main moments in the history of the musical phenomenon, a first chapter addresses the metaphysical dimension of music in classical composers. The second chapter shows the position of philosophers towards music, starting with Pythagoras and ending with Schopenhauer. The third chapter focuses on music theology in general, but also on the theology and metaphysics of music to the French philosopher of Romanian origin, Emil Cioran, who, after Augustin and Schopenhauer, wrote probably the deepest pages on the ontology of music. The last chapter refers to to the archetypal character of music.


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