William Kluback Livres

In The Clown in the Agora , William Kluback and Michael Finkenthal have put together a book of imagined conversations, encounters, and interviews based on the poetical and philosophical ideas of playwright Eugène Ionesco.

William Kluback has put together a book of imagined conversations based on the poetical and philosophical ideas of Léopold Sédar Senghor, president of Senegal (1960-1980). A poet and statesman, Senghor believes in the moral evolution of humanity and embodies a universalism rare in a world of nationalism and power politics.

The Romanian-born Emile Cioran is one of the most important figures of modern French philosophy and literature. Even though most of his French works have been translated into English, this is the first attempt to produce a comprehensive presentation and appraisal of his work to an English-speaking public. Written in the form of a dialogue between two skeptical minds, this book discusses both the pre-war Romanian and post-war French works of Cioran.

who is absorbed by science and medicine. This is William Kluback's seventh volume in a series of studies on Paul Valery. This book shows how Valery went beyond philosophy to wisdom. His achievement was so rare that we remain fascinated by his writings. We see in him a man whose constructions build bridges from one human endeavor. He is a poet who is absorbed by science and medicine.

This is the first book length study of one of Romania's greatest poets. Benjamin Fondane was a close friend of Lev Cheslov, a profound critic of contemporary European thought, and a thoughtful critic of the role of the Jew in Western civilization. In Fondane's work we confront the moral fiber of our age.

From the Foreword by Louis Dupré, Yale «This work, glowing with admiration and enthusiasm for now mostly neglected thinkers, proves how beneficial and, indeed, how adventurous can be the journey to oneself through the past that fashioned it. The author invites us to revisit ourselves while abandoning our seclusiveness. We should thank the gentle guide for showing where the way backward leads home to the present.»

This is a book about a poet and a philosopher who, through his entire work, tried to bring together East and West. The author points out Sri Aurobindo’s beyond the inadequacies of the rationality and the exaggerations of the passions, William Kluback seeks the essence of Aurobindo in his life-long struggle to find a dwelling for the spiritual.

This is William Kluback's sixth volume on Paul Valéry. As Kluback moved from one volume to another, he realized how Valéry mastered the human mind; how he saw in it man's most distinguished power. In face of the Gulags and the Holocaust, of mass murder, and universal deception, Valéry maintained his faith in rationality. In this faith of reason, he found the strength to continue his work. We study him because we believe that rationality is our guide and protector.

The Poetry of the Nomad is a unique attempt to write a nomad's poetry, to encounter both desert and book, to speak and to be silent toward the divine. The poet accepts and denies the divine. His conversations are heard and not heard. Words designate and transfigure their designations. Men listen and they understand, but understanding is the beginning of nonunderstanding. This is a dialogue of a nomad, a wandering dialogue, one that is in the book and beyond it.