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Censura transcendentală și sensul tragismului blagian
Transcendental censorship and the meaning of Blagian tragedy

Author(s): Anca Bradu
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Customs / Folklore, Aesthetics, Romanian Literature, Philosophy of Religion, Sociology of Art
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: knowledge; myth; philosophy; universe; tradition; folklore; religion; theatre;

Summary/Abstract: The „vital” sources of Lucian Blaga’s dramas are exposed in the pages of the Trilogy of Knowledge, a philosophical text which generates a philosophical theatre by a process of distillation of myths, of the unconscient, of the points of reference which build a religion. The dramatic corpus is in congruence with the entire philosophical and thinking system of the Romanian philosopher. It relies on a link between the human spiritual substance and the tradition, on the indication of the necessary pre-existent conditions which establish the features of identity and the characteristics of collectivity. In this particular type of theatre there are obviously indicated three formulas of knowledge, from the „paradisiacal knowledge” opposed to „luciferical knowledge” (mysterious, with hidden signs and codes, which initiate the „state of crisis” and the unknown). Lucian Blaga invokes the third aspect of knowledge, the mythical one. The experience is encrypted in myths, folklore, in cosmical myths, superstitions fragmentary exposed, fact which creates difficulties of interpretations.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 33-39
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian