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Catalogo generale in PDF; Facebook. M., Sommario di decomposizione Stato del libro: usato timbro al frontespizio, sottiln. A biro, traccia etich al dorso. Alla cultura francese, in quegli anni incline all’engagement, Cioran contrapponeva solitariamente negazione e ironia; e con queste pagine scopriva una lingua – il francese – rivelandosene subito maestro. Non alla maniera di Sartre, ma piuttosto a quella di Chamfort e di Pascal. Con un solo gesto, Cioran presentava tutto se stesso. EMIL CIORAN GENEALOGIA DEL FANATISMO CON IMMAGINI SOMMARIO DI DECOMPOSIZIONE. Essa si inserisce nel tempo, assume forma di evento: il passaggio dalla logica all. Na kodalu bangaram actress bhanumathi real name list.
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«Mi basta sentire qualcuno parlare sinceramente di ideale, di avvenire, di filosofia, sentirlo dire “noi” con tono risoluto, invocare gli “altri” e ritenersene l’interprete – perché io lo consideri mio nemico»: parole come queste, allorché il Sommario di decomposizione fu pubblicato a Parigi nel 1949, non potevano che dividere i lettori, suscitando in essi o scandalo o amm..more
Published October 1st 1996 by Adelphi
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Jun 30, 2007Bill Kerwin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
A series of epigrammatic reflections on how things fall apart. This is a bleak, atheistic book, but it is strangely comforting and even humorous in its unembarrassed nihilism. Characteristic Cioran quotes: 'Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.' 'By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.' 'Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.' ![]()
Jun 28, 2019BlackOxford rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The Poetry of Death Sep 26, 2016Edward rated it liked it · review of another edition
A Short History of Decay is a compendium of pessimistic aphorism, a sort of cosmopolitan collection of Gnostic scripture through the ages. It is entertaining, observationally acute, and compelling - all descriptions that the author would object to strenuously. I think he would accept ‘poetry of death’ much more readily, however. There is little except for death about which Cioran has anything good to say. Cioran begins as a sort of secular Qoholeth from the Old Testament: All i..more
Shelves: 2016, nonfiction, philosophy, commentary-and-essay
A Short History of Decay is an unbridled celebration of nihilism. Cioran writes with an almost theatrical degree of cynicism: his commitment to persistently wrenching the most pessimistic conclusion from any proposition is often hilarious in its melodramatic absurdity. His philosophy is one of absolute futility, in which suicide is the most noble act, and any motion towards civilisation, culture or the pursuit of knowledge is entirely misguided.
While I enjoyed his acerbic commentaries on Christ..more
May 26, 2010Szplug rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The hermeneutics of the void via prose poetry. Declared anathema: faith, love, action, dogma, suicide, living, hope. Deemed exemplary: laughter, cynicism, poetry, inertia, acceptance of death and the futility of existence, doubt. Cioran is a diagnostician of decay, the type to carouse with madmen, crooks, layabouts, and roués—to hold that Jesus ruined the tragedy of his crucifixion by appending it with his resurrection, thus imbuing his followers with the dream of eternal life, an abhorrent and..more
Apr 19, 2008Greg rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: philosophy-theory-and-other-their-i, life-is-shit
If you think you hate life, or maybe just the world around you this book will make you kick yourself repeatedly for being just too much of a goddamn optimist. This is one bleak and beautiful book. How Cioran could live with thoughts like these and not end his own life is beyond me, but like a character out of Beckett he continues going on. This is the second book of his that I've read and it's even darker than his more youthful and lighthearted Tears and Saints which was really not the kind of b..more
Sep 02, 2009Matthew W rated it liked it · review of another edition
This book is BEYOND pessimism and nihilism! I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone that thinks positively about their future or anyone that is part of a national movement. E.M. Cioran makes no lie that he has given up on existence (aside from writing of course!).
Jan 13, 2013Tilly rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Emil Cioran Sommario Di Decomposizione Pdf
'Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.'
'By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.' Reading E. M. Cioran's aphoristic musings on the decay of modern society is not easy on the soul, but is made bearable by his beautiful turns of phrase and concise explanations (despite the fact that he uses more ellipses than a teenager on facebook chat). Cioran's essays on human life basically rest on proving its innate absurdity. God is a failure (until he created Bach), enthusi..more
Oct 28, 2013Christopher rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
It is a very rare thing that a philosopher can write well stylistically. Even if I disagreed with everything said here it would have gotten 5 stars for its prose alone.
Of course, I did still agree with at least half of it, so that helps. Cioran Sommario Di Decomposizione Pdf Free
Jun 07, 2017Ana-Maria Cârciova rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Cioran was a really amazing human being. Cioran knew what`s going on and while reading this book not only that you find yourself in the same posture but also you can find out the answers at his own questions; reading him was just like getting to know my own thoughts at night. When getting to the part in which he wrote that he wanted to believe, he was just so prepared to trust someone or something (almost at the end of the book) I was already conscious of 'why he couldn`t make it until the end'...more
Feb 20, 2010Bradley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
A brilliant masterpiece. Says so much with such artistry. Think - Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco but flavored with full-blown nihilistic humor. Cioran has me convinced by about the first paragraph that life is absurd, God wasted was a complete failure until he created Bach and totally redeemed himself, people who live in monasteries are egotistical because they care more about their own souls than living with the rest of us.. only the skeptics and the decadent roman emperors had living figur..more
Nov 28, 2014sologdin rated it did not like it · review of another edition
not seeing the appeal. overt fascist muses on decadence. how many motherfuckers died to extinguish this kind of self-obsessed bullshit?
Dec 11, 2018Reuben rated it did not like it · review of another edition
A Short History of Decay is dreck, but it's beautiful dreck—sick with bits of glitter in it. A collection of aphorisms, barely any of which reflect reality, which are soaked in some of the most sublime prose. Granted, these are aphorisms, and expecting rigorous deductive reasoning out of them is somewhat misguided—but that doesn't stop the fact that so much of what is written here is utterly vacuous despite how prettily it is dressed up. Take the following for instance:
'Look at your body in a mi..more
Jul 15, 2015Chris Jones rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
a revelation..life changing..the most readable book of philosophy ever written..pure poetry!
Sep 30, 2007Tosh rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Nihilism as a creative act! One of the great books to have by your bedside, just to remind you what kind of world we live in. Superb!
Nov 10, 2015Travelin added it · review of another edition
Shelves: started, destroyed-in-bulgarian-demolition
This I bought and started reading in Romania itself, albeit in translation. I balked pretty hard, like an alpha-male chicken, when I saw immediately, right on the back cover, that the author flew into Romania after fascists took power, to congratulate them.
He does read like someone who went to Paris for inspiration, stayed fo the nightlife, only to regress to cynicism when certainty suits him. I'd have liked to read further for the comedy factor, since he follows long nihilistic digressions with..more
Aug 29, 2016Jay Green rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I love Cioran's writing but confess that he makes me laugh out loud, much in the same way that de Sade's attempts to shock raise a chuckle and the Handsome Family's modern American Gothic appeal to my Irish/English sense of the ridiculous. I simply cannot take him seriously, and for the reader, such an attitude becomes liberating: you can simply revel in the use of language and the daring with which he expresses the most life-negating ideas. They become hilarious, a joy to read. A delight.
Sep 14, 2016Luke rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
As brilliant a thinker and writer as Cioran was, it became evident to me why I was not very familiar with his work, as I made my way through this collection of essays. To put it succinctly, he is dark as fuck. I honestly would not recommend reading this to anyone suffering from a serious form of depression. On the other hand, I don’t think most people who are not depressed would typically enjoy delving this deep into the ruminations of such a bleak worldview. Cioran takes his nihilism all the wa..more
Nov 08, 2018Büşra Şengül rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Awaking from all acceptances, all truths that we keep believing their corrects without any doubt. Witnessing an enormous illusion which people live and seeing how that illusion hides the humanity’s ridiculious. Cioran gives a new form of human by shouting immoralities and lies. He devastates us, he takes to chaous us.
Aug 06, 2013David Peak rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
'As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad..'
Jun 01, 2019Bohemothe rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Read it in a bad mood and you'll feel great, read it in a great mood and you'll feel shite.
Feb 17, 2011aaron rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Nothing quite like clearing out the mental and emotional detritus of one phase of life with the neural sandblast-treatment that is some Cioran. Cioran's thought and writing can only adequately be described as 'pleasantly exhausting': no other thinker in the history of Western philosophy has so systematically contemplated the logical endpoints of nihilism, skepticism, pessimism, abnegation, and despair. And yet, published as a collection in 1949, this series of aphoristic essays is far from a Jer..more
Nov 11, 2012Alex Sarll added it · review of another edition
Well, this one took a while for such a slim volume. But even aside from being an aphoristic work of philosophy (seldom the sort of thing to benefit from being read at speed), it's hard powering through a book which is one long sigh. A hymn to the futility of everything - including thinking you've gained anything by having noticed the futility of everything - it's torn between Cioran's desire to fade away, and his envy for the great monsters of history. At times, especially when he's compellingly..more
Apr 17, 2013Dale rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Hide all firearms, sharp objects, and anything that could be twisted into a rope prior to delving into this one! To say it's a 'downer' is an understatement of epic proportions but it's a fascinating read all the same. 80% of the time I had no real clue what Cioran was saying so I approached it as if it were Joyce's Finnegan's Wake -- hang on, let the words roll over you, and pray that something sticks along the way.
Did I finish the book? Nope, but I'm not sure anyone could at one go without up..more
Jul 10, 2017Bernardo Kaiser rated it really liked it · review of another edition
What do you get when you mix Diogenes, Heraclitus, Lao zi, the Buddha and La Rochefoucauld in a small piece of coal and crushes it under an infitiny of existential despair and cosmic horror?
Cioran constantly mentions what a romantic, idealistic young man he was - though in 'In the Heights of Despair' he seems as nihilistic as always - and how now he has matured, abandoning every trace of active philosophy, abandoning movement and hope. And it's true, he does reads like a mature adult and not a r..more
Jul 15, 2015Graychin rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Brief review below, but you can read a longer reflection on my blog.
In Pragmatism William James writes that “the potentest of all our premises is never mentioned,” referring to the inborn temperament that so powerfully shapes our individual perceptions. Like a miscalibrated scale, we weigh the objects of the world without perceiving the bias which leads us inevitably into idiosyncrasy, mistaking the subjective for the objective and the relative for the absolute. I couldn’t help but remember this..more
Nov 24, 2016Bob Hartley rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Maybe the most quotable book I've read lately. I thought I was a few levels deep into a modern interpretation of cynicism before reading this, but apparently there's plenty of space below me on the scale. What do I mean? Where philosophers like Sartre or Camus might have found absurdity in the everyday, Cioran finds despair. His most striking sentiment is that suicide is the most logical decision a person can make, but humans are too illogical in nature to commit. I've even repeated it to people..more
Aug 04, 2007Richard rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This guy is best aphorist since Nietzsche, though that isn't saying much since there's not a lot of competition. One of the most misanthropic books I've ever read. I hear his others are more of the same. I'm psyched.
Oct 02, 2018Alice Farmer rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Feb 10, 2015Kadi Kolk rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Not recommended to read the entire text in a day. Alert: too much decadence and nihilism. But one essay a day will probably keep the doctor away. Worth reading.
Feb 27, 2013RK-ïsme rated it did not like it · review of another edition
Simply lost interest. Like I live there already.
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Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Cioran wrote his first five books in Romanian. Some of these are collections of brief essays (one or two pages, on average); others are collections of aphorisms. Suffering from insomnia since his adoles..more
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