The Philosophy of the Absurd, as Illustrated in Emil Cioran's Despair
The Philosophy of the Absurd, as Illustrated in Emil Cioran's Despair

Summary/Abstract: The present article analyzes Emil Cioran's well-known essay collection, On the Heights of Despair, explaining and illustrating the philosopher's understanding of the absurd. The main ideas focus around the author’s approach to the meaning of life (or better said, to the meaninglessness of life), and around the efforts one makes in order to try to lend some noble purpose to one's own existence. However, one's only escape from the self-induced world of illusions seems to be the "passion for the absurd".

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