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Article: Cioran's Nietzsche.(E.M. Cioran, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
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- French Forum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Susan Sontag wrote that Cioran
comes after Nietzsche, who set down almost the whole of Cioran's
position a century ago. An interesting question: why does a subtle,
powerful mind consent to say what has, for the most part, already been
said?... Whatever the answer, the "fact" of Nietzsche has undeniable
consequences for Cioran. He must tighten the screws, make the argument
denser. More excruciating. More rhetorical. (1)
Sontag's essay has become a touchstone for taking Cioran seriously as a philosopher and the correlations between Cioran and Nietzsche she described are now staples of Cioran criticism.
Sontag's junction of Cioran and ...
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