{"product_id":"e-m-cioran-and-the-human-condition","title":"E. M. Cioran and the Human Condition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis masterful account situates E.M. Cioran in his rightful place as  one of the key figures in French post-war thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledged 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCioran is a thinker determined to peel back the layers of ‘polite’  philosophy to explore the anxious and difficult experience of being  human. E.M. Cioran and the Human Condition focuses in on the  iconoclastic force of his work and, in particular, his preoccupation  with birth, which he conceives of as the source of life’s dilemmas.  Framing its discussions with enduring theological themes like guilt,  original sin, salvation and apocalypse, this book brings the true  value of Cioran’s work for Western thought to the fore. These ideas  often go unnoticed in the work of more conventional thinkers,  making Cioran an essential figure in confronting the apocalyptic  nature of our own age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe unique combination of pessimism, dark humour and morbid  wit in Cioran’s writing pushes us to explore what, if any, future  there is for humanity in a world becoming ever more inhuman.  This is a lively and thought-provoking introduction to an unjustly  marginalized thinker who has much to teach us about the human  condition after the crises of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54839577248088,"sku":"9781350498549","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350498549_e8a2f4e6-860a-4b5c-92e0-667b4ced3ae7.jpg?v=1770914735","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/e-m-cioran-and-the-human-condition","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}