HOW TO BE HAPPY IN ROMANIA - FACETS OF ROMANIANNESS
HOW TO BE HAPPY IN ROMANIA - FACETS OF ROMANIANNESS
Author(s): Corina DobrotăSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: happiness; Romanianness; stereotype; mental construct; imagology;
Summary/Abstract: The paper was inspired by a collection of essays by 17 Romanian and foreign authors, mainlyphilosophers and writers, each holding various views on Romania and analyzing the possibilities to attainhappiness in the heterogeneous, contrast-prone, often alienating post-1989 society. In a synthesizingapproach, deconstructing and analyzing the stereotypes in current use, revealing uncomfortable orflattering aspects of daily life in today’s Romania, the aim of the paper is to single out the dimension ofthe multi-facetted concept of ”happiness” in a society that has not yet found its way out of the tangledweb of a tormented history, but is yet striving to reach its rightful place in the European context. Theapproach is based on imagological concepts such as ”self”, ”other”, ”national character”, ”ethnotype”,a.s.o..
- Issue Year: 2/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 34-40
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English