Drawn and Quartered
Arcade · Print & ebook · November 13, 2012
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- Who it’s for
- A darkly alert collection that tests hope, truth, and the stories society tells itself.
- Themes
- Truth and illusion, Hope and despair, History as delusion
- Genres
- Philosophy Writing, Existentialism, Philosophers & Their Ideas
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In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task, and thus, while he perceives the world darkly, he refuses to give in to despair. He hits upon this ultimate truth by developing his notion of human history and events as "a procession of delusions," striking out at the so-called "Fallacies of Hope."
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By examining the relationship between truth and action and between absolutes, unknowables, and frauds, Cioran comes out, for once, in favor of being.
Hope Under Scrutiny
A darkly alert collection that tests hope, truth, and the stories society tells itself.
Come here for
- Aphorisms that unsettle easy faith in progress
- The uneasy link between truth and action
Expect
- Short essays alongside sharply compressed aphorisms
- A bleak view that stops short of despair
Where it sits
| Philosophy Writing | 64% |
|---|---|
| Philosophers & Their Ideas | 49% |
| Existentialism | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- French Literary Criticism
- 20th-Century Literary Criticism
- Modern Philosophy
- Social Philosophy
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- Philosophy Writing
- Quotations
- Authors
- E. M. Cioran
- Publisher
- Arcade
- Published
- November 13, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Truth and illusion · Hope and despair · History as delusion
- Reading lane
- French Literary Criticism