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Scepticismul lui Cioran. Poporul român faţă în faţă cu naţiunile
Cioran’s Skepticism. The Romanian People Facing Other Nations

Author(s): Mara Magda Maftei
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: Cioran; skepticism; history; totalitarism; liberalism; Nae Ionescu

Summary/Abstract: We were interested to find an explanation to the cause of Cioran's skepticism regarding the fate of the Romanian people who cannot become a nation. Cioran admires the French, British, German, Russian, Spanish and Hungarian nations. We search for the reasons Cioran had to assign the best qualifications to foreign nations, to identify these qualifications, why the Romanian people is guilty because he remained a simple people and what are the features that maintain the Romanian people in this status . We did not neglect the influence Nae Ionescu had on Cioran. We analyzed the most representative writings of Nae Ionescu and we detected certain recurrent themes in the writings of Cioran; even if later Cioran would deny his sympathies towards the Iron Guard and especially the sympathy he had for Nae Ionescu, he remained, to some extent, his faithful student just by perpetuating his teachings and the oratorical philosophy. Our approach insists also on the writings of Nae Ionescu.

  • Issue Year: 12/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 117-130
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian