Cioran – filosof sau gânditor privat?
Cioran – philosopher or private thinker?

Summary/Abstract: In the majority of the cases, the exegetes of Cioran’s work avoid calling him a philosopher. Most of them opt for the variant proposed by Cioran himself: thinker or private thinker. The young Emil Cioran has vast philosophical knowledge; therefore, at first, he is tempted to go along with academic philosophy. The problem is that both his experience as an insomniac and the influence of some of his friends who were professors of philosophy make him philosophically stand against school philosophy, the philosophy of a traditional nature. The systematic philosophy does not hold when facing irrationality; its abstract ideas and structures do not provide any consolation against suffering or lack of meaning. Although he can be ascribed to the countless older or newer definitions given to a philosopher, Cioran is not keen on being called a philosopher. He does not want his authentic, visceral philosophy to be acknowledged as philosophy. Instead, he chooses to be an anti-philosopher, a private thinker. In effect, Cioran reties the Greek philosophy of the beginning, which was leaning toward wisdom, with the unmediated expression of living, most of which consisting of suffering.

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