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CIORAN ȘI SUFERINȚA DE A EXISTA
CIORAN AND THE SUFFERING TO EXIST

Author(s): Adriana Neacșu
Subject(s): Contemporary Philosophy, Existentialism
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: individuation; suffering; existence; loneliness; sadness; boredom; fatigue; restlessness; fear; despair; disease; death; cynicism;

Summary/Abstract: For Emil Cioran, life is unbearable, meaningless, full of errors and "bestiality." Trying to get out of the horizontal existence, to conquer eternity and infinity, man shows his incapacity to go beyond himself to merge with the Absolute or God. But drama occurs especially when it understands that God is a being more helpless than man, and the Absolute is Nothing. Therefore all the hopes collapse, and man must assume his suffering for which he has no cure and which defines his existence in all its aspects. But the suffering, effect of awareness of the mismatch between man and his own life, has not only a negative meaning, but also an eminently positive one, because it ennobles man and opens to him new ways of existential realization.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 43
  • Page Range: 82-97
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian
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