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Original Title:	Pe culmile disperării
ISBN:	0226106713 (ISBN13: 9780226106717)
Edition Language:	English

On the Heights of Despair

Emil M. Cioran

Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

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Title	:	On the Heights of Despair
Author	:	Emil M. Cioran
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1996 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1933)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. European Literature. Romanian Literature. Writing. Essays

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Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Emil Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of the heights." On the Heights of Despair shows Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy both share the "lyrical virtues" that alone lead to a metaphysical revelation. "No modern writer twists the knife with Cioran's dexterity. . . . His writing . . . is informed with the bitterness of genuine compassion."—Bill Marx, Boston Phoenix "The dark, existential despair of Romanian philosopher Cioran's short meditations is paradoxically bracing and life-affirming. . . . Puts him in the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard."—Publishers Weekly, starred review "This is self-pity as epigram, the sort of dyspeptic pronouncement that gets most people kicked out of bed but that has kept Mr. Cioran going for the rest of his life."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review

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Wow this book is very...very dark, but what do you expect from a book called "on the heights of despair"! Emil Cioran is cleaely inspired by Nietzsche. His pessimistic view on existence is due to the nonexistence of objective truth. But he differs from Nietzsche in that he doesn't preach of the glory of the ubermench, nor does he like Camus end his book on a lighter note by claiming that one can be happy with the absurdity of existence. His view is much....much depressing; the universe is

I keep returning to Cioran because I think, on the other side of his melodramatic griping, there are keys to living a fulfilling life. "Where does happiness begin? When we have persuaded ourselves that there is no truth. All salvation comes thenceforth, even salvation through nothing. He who does not believe in the impossibility of truth, or does not rejoice in it, has only one road to salvation, which he will, however, never find."For Cioran, the evolution of consciousness, which is unique to

How does one become a pessimist?By reading your book, pal. You made Schopenhauer look like one of the Teletubbies. It was a fortunate thing that I didnt read this during my impressionable adolescence. I still cant rate it I think a 3-star rating is a good compromise. Many quotes that pulled on my heartstrings, and many chapters I already forgot, out of immunity to certain thoughts and dislike of overly melodramatic prose. Things that belong to the plane of ideas, naturally, since the kind of

I can say I don't agree on most of the ideas in this book and I wonder how can someone live like this? Thinking no one ever does an altruistic gesture and vices being the best thing to have, otherwise you're boring?! I do understand him at some points, as pessimism and depression are opaque and subjective feelings you can hardly see through... Unbelievable but among all that pessimism I could find some optimism, paradoxically (as he keeps repeating! The beginning and the ending have kind of

Okay, here's a thing or two about this book. This is easily my favourite "philosophical" book. It's so raw, and humane and majestic and I just love it so much. I haven't finished it yet, I don't want to because I want to always be able to go back to it and discover more into it and then forget it and then re-read it, etc etc.

if you've ever laid in bed at 3am staring at the ceiling, you'll know what this book is about.also, to my philosophy teacher who said I'd go insane afer reading this - that all you got?

Ah, Cioran, twenty-two years old and already so caustically weary with that great travail called life - I remember that age well!This is a compulsively readable shotgun blast of bleak lyricism that ofttimes offers profound insight and occasionally jejune invective. Cioran is a cruel diagnostician of despair - there is little from the realms of spiritual shadow that he is not acutely aware of - and scourges the quotidian world with its infinite banality, pointlessness, and immanent subjugation to