Not-Man: Cioran, Extinction, and the Failure of the Human

Ştefan Bolea is currently working as a research fellow within the Faculty of Letters at the University of Cluj-Napoca and as an Editor-in-Chief at the cultural e-zine EgoPHobia. He has obtained 2 PhDs (in Philosophy and Comparative Literature) and was a PhD student in Oslo, Munich, Paris and Vienna. He also has two BA’s in Philosophy and European Studies and one MA in American Studies. He is the recipient of 21 national and international literary awards and distinctions. Selections from his texts were translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Ukrainian. He has published 12 books (of poetry, essays, and prose) in Romanian. He is the author of Internal Conflict in 19th Century Literature: Reading the Jungian Shadow (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).

• Cioran’s Antihumanism.- Studies in the Age of Extinction.- 1. Nihilism and Antihumanism.- 2. The Not-Man.- 3. Bacovia’s Death Instinct.- 4. Toward the ‘Never-Born’. Mainländer and Cioran.- 5. Privatio mali. “Evil Precedes Good”.- 6. Three Negations to Existence (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cioran).- 7. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return as Condemnation.- 8. Depression and Melancholy.- Appendix.