E. M. Cioran and the Human Condition

This masterful account situates E.M. Cioran in his rightful place as one of the key figures in French post—war thought.

Acknowledged for decades as a pillar of European culture, the Romanian émigré to Paris has been overlooked by Anglophone scholarship, but by placing him in conversation with acclaimed mainstream thinkers like Martha Nussbaum, Hannah Arendt and Samuel Beckett this book finally redresses that balance.

Cioran is a thinker determined to peel back the layers of 'polite' philosop...