J. de Maere

TIME, DECLINE, AND THE NEUROAESTHETICS OF THE SUBLIME: EMIL CIORAN, OSWALD SPENGLER, AND THE CULTURAL MORPHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

This article examines the intersection of Emil Cioran’s phenomenology of temporal decay, Oswald Spengler’s morphological theory of cultural decline, and contemporary neuroaesthetic research grounded in predictive processing and embodied cognition. While both Cioran and Spengler share an intuition of civilisational exha...