{"product_id":"9780253003454","title":"Searching for Cioran","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born\u003cbr\u003e French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical\u003cbr\u003e revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his\u003cbr\u003e writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. This move led\u003cbr\u003e to his transformation into one of the most famous French moralists of the 20th\u003cbr\u003e century. As an enthusiast of the anti-rationalist philosophies widely popular in\u003cbr\u003e Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, Cioran became an advocate of\u003cbr\u003e the fascistic Iron Guard. In her quest to understand how Cioran and other brilliant\u003cbr\u003e young intellectuals could have been attracted to such passionate national revival\u003cbr\u003e movements, Zarifopol-Johnston, herself a Romanian emigré, sought out the aging\u003cbr\u003e philosopher in Paris in the early 1990s and retraced his steps from his home village\u003cbr\u003e of Rasinari and youthful years in Sibiu, through his student years in Bucharest and\u003cbr\u003e Berlin, to his early residence in France. Her portrait of Cioran is complemented by\u003cbr\u003e an engaging autobiographical account of her rediscovery of her own Romanian\u003cbr\u003e past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078796755184,"sku":"9780253003454","price":23.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253003454_p0.jpg?v=1763679771","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253003454","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}