On Cioran and the fascination of melancholy
The following study is focused on Dan C. Mihăilescu`s study on „Cioran and the fascination of madness”, published in 2011, at the centennial of Cioran`s birth. In this book, Dan C. Mihăilescu states that, even though Emil Cioran and Constantin Noica represented two mutually irreducible types of masters, his youth was seduced by a simultaneous fascination for both philosophers. The article observes the influential traces left by this oxymoronic fascination on Dan C. Mihăilescu`s writing and intellectual career, depicting thus his trajectory from Noica (his youth`s revered master) towards Cioran (beloved master of the mature years), correspondent to the already archaetypal glide from Eminescu towards Caragiale.
Keywords: contemporary Romanian philosophy, Emil Cioran, Constantin Noica, master and disciple relationship, Dan C. Mihăilescu, „Cioran and the fascination of madness”
