In TEARS AND SAINTS, Cioran touches on nearly all the themes that would preoccupy the writer over the course of his career. Self-consciously perverse, this collection will fascinate anyone interested in saints, mysticism, philosophy, the history of Christianity, or the ultimate strangeness of the sacred. bltadwin.ru: Tears and Saints () by Cioran, E. M. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. · Tear and Saints, Cioran's examination of saints (read: mystics), existence, God, and only tangentially, music, is an aphoristic work of existential and pessimistic philosophy, following after Nietzche in style and bitterness. As he writes of God late in the book, Cioran is possessed by "/5.
By the mids, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself "the. Buy a cheap copy of Tears and Saints book by Emil M. Cioran. Cioran is best known for epigrammatic little books of philosophy that reflect a dour, pessimistic view of humanity in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust. As Free shipping over $ ― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints. 33 likes. Like "As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think." ― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints. tags: healthy, life, philosophy, think. 24 likes. Like "If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago.
Tears and Saints. By the mids, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new. By the mids, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran “dreamt” himself “the chronicler of these saints’ falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God’s insomniacs.”. In , Emil Cioran returned the saints to cynics, depressives, and blasphemers. With Tears and Saints Cioran reminds us why people have always believed in these holy Others. Not simply because they're meek, prayerful, and simple; rather, because hearing how Rose of Lima "h[u]ng herself on a cross in her room," or listening to Rumi conflate God with his lover Shams, we recall the madness of these people.
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