About

“All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression ‘metaphysical exile’ had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.” 

 (Emil Cioran)

My name is Fernando Olszewski. I have a B.A. in economics from the University of North Dakota (UND), a B.A. in philosophy from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), and a M.A. in philosophy from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). My M.A. research was about how Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and Emil Cioran (1911-1995) used anticosmic religions to support their rejection of the world. This research was done under the supervision of professor Regina Schöpke, and it resulted in my master's dissertation, titled: Pessimism and Gnosis: Schopenhauer, Cioran and the appropriation of anticosmic religions (in Portuguese: Pessimismo e Gnose: Schopenhauer, Cioran e a apropriação das religiões anticósmicas, available at UERJ's online library of dissertations and theses). Previously, I researched the pessimistic views of history and existence found in Cioran's works, under the supervision of professor Rossano Pecoraro at UNIRIO.