The Temptation to Exist

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
• Published by: University Of Chicago Press July 20, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0226106756
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0226106755
• Book Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 9.6 ounces

Product Description
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. E.M. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. "An intellectual bombshell that blasts away at all kinds of cant, sham and conventionality. . . ". --Jonah Raskin, L.A.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Temptation to Exist (Hardcover) a stunning exposition of the wondrous caverns of the human heart, soul and mind. Somehow, through unearthing the darkest regions of consciousness, this author managed to enrich and edify us. By tearing down constructs, and destroying myths, he freed us to experience the full range of awareness; and thereby attain higher degrees of joy. This one serves as a great accompaniment to such mind bending works as: The Supreme Identity, by Alan Watts; Rebels and Devils, edited by Christopher S. Hyatt Ph.D.; and anything by Nietzsche.