Le nihilisme de Cioran et le réenchantement du monde moderne

Abstract

Una vez exiliado en Francia, Emil Cioran borra todo rastro de su apoyo al partido fascista de Rumania durante los años 30. Sin embargo, su enfoque intelectual dedicado al nihilismo es muy similar. Su escepticismo recalcitrante se mantiene cargado de un fondo mítico, obsesionado con la muerte de dios y con una divinidad inalcanzable. Su pensamiento se ve atormentado por una imposibilidad de creer a pesar de tener la voluntad de hacerlo. Dado que en este sentido se mantiene inalterado, el pensamiento de Cioran parece superar lo político y basarse en una estética modernista, cuyo fin era combatir el desencantamiento del mundo moderno. El nihilismo de Cioran es entonces un medio de reencantar un mundo supuestamente en decadencia que busca recuperar un pasado mítico perdido. / After Emil Cioran’s exile in France, he removes all signs of his former support for the Romanian fascist party during the 1930s. However, his intellectual approach to Nihilism is very similar. His recalcitrant skepticism is charged with a mythic core, obsessed with the death of God and an unattainable divinity. His thought is haunted by an impossibility to believe, despite having the will to do it. Since in this way it remained unaltered, Cioran’s thought seems to transcend politics and build on a modernist aesthetics, whose goal was to counter the disenchantment of the modern world. Cioran’s nihilism is then a means to “reenchant” a world supposedly in decadence, aiming to reclaim a lost past.