Lucid Pessimist

The works of Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist Emil Mihai Cioran (1911-1995) have been translated into Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Yet, in the Anglo-American world, Cioran is rarely taught at the postsecondary education level or mentioned in standard surveys of philosophy. This work discusses the controvers...