Realismul organic ca res publica restituta. Nicolae Iorga şi tradiţia politică a statalităţii româneşti
Organic Realism as Rest Publica Restituta. Nicolae Iorga and the Political Tradition of Romanian Statehood

Summary/Abstract: The political thought of conservative historian and stateman Nicolae Iorga (1871-1940) has been widely acknowledged within the Romanian cultural and political discourse as permeated by romantic organicism as well as by a nostalgy for the Middle Age preventing a realist perception of his present time. This perception lacks on consistence, since Iorga’s approach on the Romanian medieval order – structured around the Roman concepts of libertas and auctoritas – reveals itself as genuine Romanian repristination of the Roman Principate according to its nature of res publica restituta. Romanian political tradition should according to Iorga be conceived as essentially Roman and also the Romanian political thought should leave behind all political theories based on idealist premises in order to regain the specific Roman form of political thinking which is no other that Iorga’s own organic realism’focusing on political praxis.

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