Atitudini culturale româneşti în perioada interbelică. Etno-istorie şi geopolitică
Romanian Cultural Attitudes in the Interwar Period – History and Geopolitics

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at several major Romanian cultural standpoints in between the two World Wars, while approaching the opinions of several well-known essayists and publicists regarding the role which the Romanian people assumed in the development of European history. After a brief characterisation of the Romanian interwar years through relevant statistics, the article approaches the main topics of the debated ideas: Romanians’ self-perception of predestined people through the geographical position of the country and through the hardships endured in history, the defensive attitude both at a national and European level (Garabet Ibrăileanu, Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Emil Cioran, Lucian Blaga, Dan Botta, Mircea Eliade); the boycott (sabotaging) of history (Lucian Blaga, Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade); several formal frames regarding the fate of the Romanian people (Lucian Blaga, Emil Cioran, Vasile Băncilă); the atypical, ‚reversed’ development (selection)(Emil Cioran, Constantin Rădulescu-Motru); the existence of a true miracle in the surpvavial of the Romanian people (Mircea Eliade, Dan Botta).

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