An Infamous Past: E.M. Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in Romania

by Marta Petreu

A writer who does stupid things in his youth is like a woman with a shameful past--never forgiven, never forgotten. E. M. Cioran, the renowned Romanian-French nihilist philosopher and literary figure, knew this better than anyone. Alongside Heidegger, Sartre, Paul de Mann, and others, Cioran was one of the great scholars of the twentieth century to be seduced by totalitarianism: he experienced a most disturbing intellectual and moral drama. More than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566636078
• ISBN13: 9781566636070
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"