All Gall Is Divided
The Aphorisms of a Legendary IconoclastBy Cioran, E. M
Length1h 53m
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“An antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation"—Washington Post.E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and "a sort of final philosopher of the Western world" who "combines the compassion of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning" (Washington Post).All Gall Is Divided is the second book Cioran published in French after moving from his native Romania and establishing himself in Paris. It revealed him as an aphorist in a long tradition descending from the ancient Greeks through La Rochefoucault but with a gift for lacerating, subversively off-kilter insights, a twentieth-century nose for the absurdities of the human condition, and what Baudelaire called "spleen."The aphorisms collected here address themes from the atrophy of utterance and the condition of the West to the abyss, solitude, time, religion, music, the vitality of love, history, and the void. The award-winning poet and translator Richard Howard has characterized them as "manic humor, howls of pain, and a vestige of tears," but, as he notes too, in these expressions of the philosopher's existential estrangement, there glows "a certain sweetness for all of what Cioran calls 'amertume.'"
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GenrePhilosophy
Length1 hr 53 mins
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Publish dateJul 2, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Translator’s Note
7Religion
2Atrophy of Utterance
8Love’s Vitality
3The Swindler of the Abyss
9On Music
4Time and Anemia
10Vertigo of History
5Occident
11Where the Void Begins
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6The Circus of Solitude
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