Self-Renunciation, From the French

Self-Renunciation, From the French PDF

Author: Francois Guilloré

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015986589

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Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France

Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France PDF

Author: Thomas M. Lennon

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 900440449X

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The debate in 17th-century France between the Quietists and their opponents raised the question whether we should be willing to sacrifice the salvation of our own souls for love of another. Descartes’s views on freewill were cited by both sides.

Searching for Cioran

Searching for Cioran PDF

Author: Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-01-07

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0253003458

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Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. This move led to his transformation into one of the most famous French moralists of the 20th century. As an enthusiast of the anti-rationalist philosophies widely popular in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, Cioran became an advocate of the fascistic Iron Guard. In her quest to understand how Cioran and other brilliant young intellectuals could have been attracted to such passionate national revival movements, Zarifopol-Johnston, herself a Romanian emigré, sought out the aging philosopher in Paris in the early 1990s and retraced his steps from his home village of Rasinari and youthful years in Sibiu, through his student years in Bucharest and Berlin, to his early residence in France. Her portrait of Cioran is complemented by an engaging autobiographical account of her rediscovery of her own Romanian past.