Două texte ale lui Constantin Noica despre Germania
Two Texts by Constantin Noica about Germany

Summary/Abstract: After having published, in an earlier issue (no. 1/2025), the original version of the 1943 lecture on “The Inner Tension of Small Cultures (What Is Eternal and What Is Historical in Romanian Culture)”, we continue the “Constantin Noica Restitutions” series with two texts by the philosopher about Germany. The first, “Germany Seen from Outside It, or ‘Wenn Deutschland zugrunde geht…’”, was known until now only through a German translation by Gertrud Sauer, published in 1986 in a volume edited by Klaus Heitmann. The Romanian original—which contains several passages not included in the German version—we discovered in the CNSAS Archive, file MFI 73017 / Sibiu, vol. 4, ff. 9–22. The second text, “Deutschland als ‘Republik von Hannover’. Eine Huldigung an Leibniz, den geistigen Vorfahren unseres Zeitalters” (1985), I found in the correspondence file Klaus Heitmann–Constantin Noica. The existence of this text was known, since Noica mentions it in a letter, but its content had remained unknown until now. We have accompanied the transcription of the text with a translation: “Germany as the ‘Republic of Hanover’. A Tribute to Leibniz, the Spiritual Ancestor of Our Age.”

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