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Cioran, vingt ans après. L’outsider couronné
Cioran, twenty years later. The crowned outsider

Author(s): Patrice Bollon
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier

Summary/Abstract: Vingt ans après sa mort, Cioran reste associé à un chapelet de clichés moroses, le pessimisme, le nihilisme, l’échappée dans la mystique, etc. Des images empreintes d’un quiétisme qui ne rend pas compte de la violence salvatrice de sa rébellion existentielle. Le temps est venu de restaurer le tranchant de sa révolte, celle de l’outsider par excellence. Twenty years after his death, Cioran is still associated with many grim stereotypes,pessimism, nihilism, escaping into mysticism, etc. These are all images of a quietism that does not express the welcomed violence of his existential rebellion. It seems to be the time to restore the decisiveness of his rebellion, one of an outsider.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 201-206
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French