Romania – layers of collective identity in the 19th and the 20th centuries – an outline. Second part
Romania – layers of collective identity in the 19th and the 20th centuries – an outline. Second part

Summary/Abstract: The Second Renaissance took place in two stages, that could be called „heroic“ and „critical“ (Bădescu, 2003). At a certain moment both were coming to exist in parallel and to become two major organizing paradigms: the synchronist and the critical or conservative thought. The „heroic culture” is the answer of Romanian society to the urgency/provocation of “reentering” its history: recovering the social space, the national territory, the right to engage in trade, to have a state - as well as to its own European identity. The effort was started by the Revolution of Tudor Vladimirescu in 1821 in Wallachia, to be continued by the Transylvanian School and at its peak by the 1848 revolutionaries. The ideal type of the “heroic” intellectual is Ion Heliade Rădulescu.

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