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- Title
Cioran as an Ascetic and "Hunger Artist". An Assessment of Sloterdijk's Interpretation.
- Authors
IFTODE, Cristian
- Abstract
The Western philosophy depicts during the 80s a process that I would qualify as an authentic performative turn that regards the human subject as nothing more than the "vector" of its series of exercises, foldings, repetitions. The recent work of P. Sloterdijk is located in this framework of "antropotechnics". I shall focus my attention on two of the texts where Sloterdijk is discussing Cioran. First, I shall do an assessment of the interpretation advanced by Sloterdijk of the notorious paragraph on "flesh" (Paleontology), a text by Cioran which seems at the same time phenomenological and anti-phenomenological, metaphysical and antimetaphysical. Then, I shall discuss Sloterdijk's understanding of Cioran's self-writing as a sui generis asceticism involving a daily exercise in erasing any "infection" epicenter of firm belief and commitment, any kind of faith in the future or in oneself, adding that it is also a paradoxical testimony for the "miracle" of every living moment. This way, Cioran as an ascetic, "autopatographer" and "hunger artist" becomes a key figure in this gallery of the new "arts of living", an important link in the historical process of "the informalization of spirituality". He is the "antistoic" and pseudo-Buddhist master of demobilization, "the first master of notgetting-anywhere".
- Subjects
ASCETICS; REPETITION (Philosophy); PHENOMENOLOGY
- Publication
Hermeneia: Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory & Criticism, 2018, Issue 20, p32
- ISSN
1453-9047
- Publication type
Article