Reinterpreting Emil Cioran in Baudrillard’s Simulation Universe Cover Image

Baudrillard’ın Simülasyon Evreninde Emil Cioran’ı Yeniden Okumak
Reinterpreting Emil Cioran in Baudrillard’s Simulation Universe

Author(s): İbrahim Emre Günay
Subject(s): Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics
Published by: Namık Kemal Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Cioran; Baudrillard; simulation; simulacrum;

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to show that the criticism of Cioran about human existence and the meaninglessness of life can belong to the simulation universe. His opposition to order, evaluations against the meaninglessness of life, freedom, and the relationship between birth and death will be re-examined in the simulation universe with a qualitative approach and document analysis method. Thus, it will be shown that the criticisms of Cioran are actually related to the transformations in the simulation universe and can be used in the simulation universe critique. In this context, firstly, the outlines of the simulation universe will be revealed. Afterwards, critical evaluations of Cioran about order, meaninglessness, freedom, birth, and death will be presented and in the conclusion part, it will be tried to show how and from which perspective criticisms of Cioran are valid in the simulation universe or that his criticisms are actually criticism about simulation universe.

  • Issue Year: 11/2023
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 160-178
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish