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The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
Booksplease Price: $25.10This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer,... -
The New Gods by E M Cioran 9780226037103
Booksplease Price: $46.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226037103Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University of Chicago... -
The Trouble with Being Born by E M Cioran
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457407Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher... -
Conversaciones Cioran by E M Cioran 9788472239494
Booksplease Price: $42.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472239494Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackImprint TusQuetsPublisher TusQuets -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence:... -
Drawn and Quartered by E M Cioran 9781611456967
Booksplease Price: $32.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611456967Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher... -
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran 9781611457360
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $26.71E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history-focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science-in this nihilistic... -
E. M. Cioran and the Human Condition Dr Karl White 9781350498549
Booksplease Price: $179.87This masterful account situates E.M. Cioran in his rightful place as one of the key figures in French post-war thought.Acknowledged for decades as a pillar of European culture, the Romanian emigre... -
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to... -
Searching for Cioran by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $61.45Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing... -
Beckett and Cioran by Steven Matthews 9781009494724
Booksplease Price: $117.87This Element discusses the association between Samuel Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of... -
Beckett and Cioran by Steven Matthews 9781009351553
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $34.69This Element discusses the association between Samuel Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of... -
Alice in Sussex: Mahler after Lewis Carroll & H. C. Artmann Nicolas Mahler 9780857429926
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.36A twist on the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. Alice is back in Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, who leads her down... -
Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text by Brad Baumgartner 9781683932871
Booksplease Price: $181.50In Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text, Brad Baumgartner identifies a new genre of modern mystical writing and examines the interconnections among horror fiction, philosophy,... -
Agnomia by Robert Gal
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.03In this miniature masterpiece, Robert Gal-whom Joshua Cohen has called "a phenomenon"-conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.84With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on... -
How Non-being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance by Corey Anton 9781683932840
Booksplease Price: $129.42How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to "what is." Human life is an open expanse of "what was" and "what will be," "what might be" and "what should be." It is a... -
Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays by Susan Sontag 9781598532555
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $57.46With the publication of her first book of criticism, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is... -
Tears and Saints by E.M. Cioran
Booksplease Price: $46.18By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a... -
How Non-being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance by Corey Anton 9781683932864
Booksplease Price: $78.58How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to "what is." Human life is an open expanse of "what was" and "what will be," "what might be" and "what should be." It is a... -
Flesh of My Flesh by Kaja Silverman
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $45.02What is a woman? What is a man? How do they-and how should they-relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility by Costica Bradatan 9780674970472
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $45.28Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived, curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility... -
Essayism by Brian Dillon
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility Costica Bradatan 9780674297203
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $25.56A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Charming and brilliant." -Times Literary Supplement "Provocative, stimulating, wise the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read." Tom Holland...