Name: Drawn and Quartered
ISBN: 9781611456967

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Hope Under Scrutiny

A darkly alert collection that tests hope, truth, and the stories society tells itself.

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Aphorisms that unsettle easy faith in progress
The uneasy link between truth and action

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Short essays alongside sharply compressed aphorisms
A bleak view that stops short of despair

Book Details

Authors: E. M. Cioran
Publisher: Arcade
Published: November 13, 2012
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: French Literary Criticism · 20th-Century Literary Criticism
Reading lane: French Literary Criticism

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French Literary Criticism
20th-Century Literary Criticism
Modern Philosophy
Social Philosophy

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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." By examining the relationshi...

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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." By examining the relationship between truth and action and between absolutes, unknowables, and frauds, Cioran comes out, for once, in favor of being.