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Exercises of admiration

Autobiographical documentary about Emil Cioran

Directed by Gabriel Liiceanu

Published in 1990

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TUMULUS 80x60 cm Digital Collage 2017

by Danko Lara

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Hans Holbein's Dance of Death Alphabet

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If what we are is a "project towards the world", then the Cartesian cogito ("I think") becomes I act; my existence as a self is not that of a single continuing "consciousness", or a series of such consciousnesses, but a single "experience" in which I, as an embodied human being, engage with the world. My body is not, as objectivists might have it, an instrument loosely attached to me that I can use, but is me myself as involved with the world and as expressing myself in its movements. If I am an embodied subject, then the thoughts, feelings, intentions, wishes and so on that I have necessarily find expression in my body, not only in my actions and the objects I manipulate in them or the environment that I change by them, but even in the very characteristics of the body itself. Conversely, my body for me, or what Merleau-Ponty calls le corps propre, is not some kind of mechanistic system loosely attached to me, but is my mode of expression of my thoughts, feelings, intentions, and so on. A person's body can become what Merleau-Ponty beautifully describes as "the eloquent relic of an existence."

Eric Matthews, The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty

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"Total Eclipse, June 8, 1937" by D. Owen Stephens

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Odysseus Elytis, from The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis; "Seven Nocturnal Septachis,"

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The sphere of the sacred is not an original substance but an effect produced by the attempt to guarantee the truth and efficacy of discourse. Religion and law emerge together from this attempt to bind words to things.

— Giorgio Agamben, The Sacrament of Language