{"product_id":"on-the-heights-of-despair-9780226106717","title":"On the Heights of Despair","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the Heights of Despair\u003c\/strong\u003e by Cioran, E. M.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226106717.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA classic work of philosophical reflection on despair, decay, and the futility of existence that Publishers Weekly said “puts Cioran in the company of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard”\n\nBorn of a terrible insomnia—\"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell\"—this book presents the potent, self-lacerating insights of the youthful E. M. Cioran, a self-described \"Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clowns tricks, a whole circus of the heights.\"\n\nOn the Heights of Despair shows Ciorans first grappling with themes he would return to in his later, mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a theoretician of despair, for whom writing and philosophy both share the \"lyrical virtues\" that alone lead to a metaphysical revelation.\n\nA book to keep at your bedside, as epigrammatic as it is insightful, On the Heights of Despair offers not consolation, but engaging, thought-provoking companionship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666238398517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226106713","price":55.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226106717_9c3c43b0-a479-4317-a81b-5925fd6f9b69.jpg?v=1782462212","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/on-the-heights-of-despair-9780226106717","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}