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By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran "dreamt" himself "the chronicler of these saints' falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God's insomniacs." Inspired by Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil", Cioran "searched for the origin of tears". He asked himself if saints could be "the sources of tears' better light". "Who can tell?" he wrote in the first paragraph of this book, first published in Romania in 1937. "To be sure, tears are their trace. Tears did not enter the world through the saints; but without them we would never have known that we cry because we long for a lost paradise." By following in their traces, "wetting the soles of one's feet in their tears", Cioran hoped to understand how a human being can renounce being human. Cioran focuses not on martyrs or heroes but on the mystics - primarily female - famous for their spirituality and intimate knowledge of God. Their Christianity was anti-theological, anti-institutional and based solely on intuition and sentiment. Many, such as Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, have produced classic works of mystical literature; but Cioran celebrates many more minor and unusual figures as well. Following Nietzsche, he focuses explicitly on the political element hidden in saints' lives. In his hands, however, their charitable deeds are much less interesting than their thirst for pain and their equally powerful capacity to endure it. Behind their suffering and their uncanny ability to renounce everything through ascetic practices, Cioran detects a fanatical will to power.
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"Like Nietzsche, Cioran is an important religious thinker. His book intertwines God and music with passion and tears. . . . [Tears and Saints] has a chillingly contemporary ring that makes this translation important here and now".
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TEARS AND SAINTS - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 128 pages. Published in 1995. Book-length account on subject. One of E. M. Cioran's earliest - and finest - achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Second Edition and the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now rare. Presents E. M. Cioran's "Lacrimi si sfinti" in a felicitous English translation. The philosopher's single most valuable book in Romanian. "Inspired by Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good And Evil', Cioran searched for the origin of tears. He asked himself if saints could be the sources of our tears' better light" (Publisher's blurb). The seeds of Cioran in his full maturity (in French) were all planted in this ground-breaking book, including his seductive, gnomic voice, which one imitates at one's peril. In one of the most unusual philosophical quests on Western mysticism, Cioran sought to understand the essence of sainthood: That is, how a human being, "only human", can nevertheless renounce being human, which is the basis of his subsequent philosophy. In the crowded and competitive field called Modernism, E. M. Cioran stands out: The singular voice of rationality and Reason, on the one hand, and the Nietzschean spokesman of profound, not just residual, attachment to mysticism and myth, Un-Reason, on the other. There is no contemporary pundit, politician, or thinker, every single one of them pedestrian, blind partisans, who can be favorably compared to Cioran. An absolute "must-have" title for E. M. Cioran collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the 1995 First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws (abusive highlighting, underlining, and writing on inside pages that every Cioran book is subjected to) or are subsequent editions, of which there are several. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writer-philosophers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER E. M. CIORAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0226106721. no. Seller Inventory # 23527
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