false 68189 2855 1559704640 9781559704649 11 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161662326m/2855.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1161662326s/2855.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2855.A_Short_History_of_Decay 4.22 90
E.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history. He focuses on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science. ]]> 68189 4.13 587 51 1975 117564 1559704624 9781559704625 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171740129m/117564.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171740129s/117564.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117564.The_Trouble_With_Being_Born 4.24 84 ]]> 68189 4.13 587 51 1973 117566 0226106713 9780226106717 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171740130m/117566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171740130s/117566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117566.On_the_Heights_of_Despair 4.20 86 On the Heights of Despair, the paradigmatic cry of the tortured artist whose explosive intensity of passion is equaled only by the profundity of his despair. In this hauntingly lyrical meditation on darkness, stemming from a sustained insomniac hyper-lucidity, E. M. Cioran cries out a devastating nihilism that is in the end betrayed by his own intransigent lust for being. Compels reading and rereading. ]]> 68189 4.13 587 51 1990 117565 0226106756 9780226106755 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645377m/117565.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645377s/117565.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117565.The_Temptation_to_Exist 4.00 56
"A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning."--Washington Post

"An intellectual bombshell that blasts away at all kinds of cant, sham and conventionality. . . . [Cioran's] language is so erotic, his handling of words so seductive, that the act of reading becomes an encounter in the erogenous zone."--Jonah Raskin, L.A. Weekly


E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was born and educated in Romania and lived in Paris from 1937 until his death. He is the author of numerous works, including On the Heights of Despair, also available from the University of Chicago Press.

</div>]]> 68189 4.13 587 51 7907 3.92 5094 533 27112 4.07 3031 203 1972 117567 1559704713 9781559704717 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171740130m/117567.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171740130s/117567.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117567.All_Gall_is_Divided_Aphorisms 4.07 27 All Gall Is Divided make a strong case for either appellation. "With every idea born in us," he declares early on, "something in us rots." Throughout the book, he addresses the futile attempts of man to impose meaning on a meaningless existence--"That there should be a reality hidden by appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope"--and nurses an ongoing fascination with the possibilities death holds for release from life's madness. (When the Dead Kennedys sang, "I look forward to death / This world brings me down," they might as well have been taking notes from Cioran.) Grim stuff, but presented in brilliant, crystalline form--particularly in the translation by Richard Howard, which retains Cioran's cold, detached viewpoint. ]]> 68189 4.13 587 51 1952 300448 0226106748 9780226106748 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173530391m/300448.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173530391s/300448.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300448.Tears_and_Saints 3.97 38 68189 4.13 587 51 1988 300447 1559704616 9781559704618 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173530391m/300447.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173530391s/300447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300447.Anathemas_and_Admirations 4.00 28 68189 4.13 587 51 1991 455488 0226106764 9780226106762 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664203m/455488.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664203s/455488.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455488.History_and_Utopia 4.21 19
"A small masterwork . . . a stringent examination of some persistent and murky notions in human history. . . . It is best to read Cioran while sitting. The impact upon the intellect can be temporarily stunning, and motor systems may give way under the assault."--Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Houston Chronicle

"Cioran has a claim to be regarded as among the handful of original minds . . . writing today."--New York Times

"A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. [Cioran's] statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning."--Washington Post

E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was born and educated in Romania and lived in Paris from 1937 until his death. He is the author of numerous works, including On the Heights of Despair, also available from the University of Chicago Press.

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http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1221597643s/4683304.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4683304._ 4.00 5 حين يُشْبِع الطغاة شراستهم يتحوّلون إلى رجال طيّبين. وكان يمكن أن تعود الأمور إلى نصابها لولا غيرةُ العبيد، ورغبتهم في إشباع شراستهم هم أيضاً. إن طموح الخروف إلى أن يتقمّص دور الذئب هو باعث أغلب الأحداث. كلّ من ليس له نابٌ يحلم به. ويريد أن يفترس هو أيضاً.]]> 68189 4.13 587 51 1949808 4.00 5 2 2003 4638377 0000973280198 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4638377.Cartea_amagirilor 3.40 5 68189 4.13 587 51 1936 579470 8420635073 9788420635071 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175972428m/579470.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175972428s/579470.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/579470.Adios_a_La_Filosofia_Y_Otros_Textos_Goodbye_to_Philosophy_and_other_Texts 4.00 4 68189 4.13 587 51 1994 594079 9732804041 9789732804049 0 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