Adrian Marino and the Ideea of Freedom. A Necesary Reevaluation and Challenge  Cover Image

Adrian Marino şi ideea de libertate: O reparaţie şi o revanşă necesare
Adrian Marino and the Ideea of Freedom. A Necesary Reevaluation and Challenge

Author(s): Ionuţ Costea
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: History of Ideas; Ideology; Culture; Liberalism; Enlightment; Post communism; istoria ideilor; ideologie; cultura; liberalism; iluminism; post-comunism

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to highlight a turn in Marino Adrian's intellectual identity. This change was confirmed in memorialistic feature texts (dialogues, memories) printed after the events of December 1989 and it is seen at some program writings, which are militant in order to define a new Romanian culture, based on a real dialog with the West, animated by a critical spirit, being original and oriented through fundamental writings, synthesis and encyclopedias. If at cultural level, Marino asserted his desire to build a new culture, at social level he believed in building up a civil society, dominated by the values of democracy and of human rights. In this context, Marino’s interest moves from the criticism and literary theory to the history of ideas and ideologies, in order to define a liberal culture necessary to the deep modernization and Europeanization of the Post communist Romania.

  • Issue Year: VII/2011
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 95-102
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian