THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE POLITICAL AND THE ECONOMIC IN MIHAI EMINESCU’S CONCEPTION
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE POLITICAL AND THE ECONOMIC IN MIHAI EMINESCU’S CONCEPTION

Summary/Abstract: By insightfully analyzing the Romanian society’s problematique of his time, Eminescu developed an original conception about the inner contradictions and barriers a society lagging behind in its transition to modernity must overcome. The present-day exegetes, who have the privilege of having before them the entire corpus of Eminescu’s writings, have underpinned the variety of theoretical references and the complexity of his economic and social thinking, as well as his explanatory model he uses in analyzing society and in his critical radiographs of the Romanian realities. Starting from Maiorescu’s assessments on the poet’s philosophical vocation and his cultural horizons, I tried to show that this dimension of Eminescu’s personality became, over time, an important component of his image as a whole. Thus, Eminescu-the thinker is now glued to Eminescu-the poet. To decipher how Eminescu sees the equation of social life, I think the best way is to analyze the relationship between the political and the economic, a relationship which often in Eminescu’s texts the relationships between the forms and content, concepts known from Maiorescu’s theory.

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