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Vasile Lovinescu, a great initiate
Vasile Lovinescu, a great initiate

Author(s): Ovidiu Marian-Ionescu
Subject(s): Islam studies, Sociology of Culture, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Fundatia Română pentru Inteligenta Afacerii
Keywords: Vasile Lovinescu; Initiation; René Guénon; Tradition; Islam;

Summary/Abstract: The duty of giving the national culture a generous project, for the first time released from the pressure of extraculture, belongs to the interwar generation. There is a real esoteric generation, under the name of René Guénon, its legitimate representative being Vasile Lovinescu. He is an intellectual on his continuous way to initiation. His approach to Islam, to sufism, does not mean the fact that he abandoned the orthodox religion, but represents a pursuit of a transcendent unity of all religions. Vasile Lovinescu is a landmark of Romanian spirituality of the last century, a personality that still waits for being acknowledged.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 557-561
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian