ELITELE POLITICE ŞI „EXCEPŢIONALISMUL” POSTMODERN AL DEMOCRAŢIEI ROMÂNEŞTI
Political Elites and the Postmodern "Exceptionalism" of Romania's Democracy

Summary/Abstract: The ticket promised for a “new setting”, that of the European community, testifies for the governing of the Romanian action and thought by what Lyotard considered to be “the idea of humanity’s emancipation”. Out of this promise there spread out various Romanian political platforms, oscillating between political and economic liberalism, Marxist-“ism”, and radicalism, among others. The Romanian political class engages itself in launching discourses (electoral, parliamentary etc) after this “rhetoric of emancipation”. J.-F. Lyotard warned that it was not the absence of progress, but, on the contrary, the technical, scientific, artistic, economic and political development that made possible the “total wars”, the totalitarianism, the growing discrepancy between the richness of the West and the poverty of the East, unemployment and the “new poverty”, and the “general lack of education”. These entire inconvenient (social, political, economic etc.) insert “secret obstacles” in the way of the “silent perpetuation” of the modern project.

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