Înțelepciunea nebunului sau gândirea politică a lui Henric Sanielevici
The wisdom of the fool or the political thought of Henric Sanielevici

Summary/Abstract: Henric Sanielevici (1875-1951) was one of the lesser-known Romanian thinkers belonging to the intellectual current of “westernism” or “modernism”. To the present, however, no attempt has been made to grasp the peculiarities of his westernist arguments, and to relate them to those of his more famous contemporaries of the same ideological orientation, Stefan Zeletin and Eugen Lovinescu. The article tries to accomplish precisely that. Leaving aside Sanie- levici’s contributions in other fields (like literary criticism and paleontology), it takes a new look at his discourse as a social critic. The investigation shows that Sanielevici is akin to Lovinescu and Zeletin by his opposition to traditionalist thinking. Unlike them, however, he conjoins this stance with a staunch criticism of the political establishment, of which the most important component in the period was the Liberal Party leadership. Moreover, it emerges that Sanielevici's anti-Liberal argumentation is conducive to bringing him closer than either Lovinescu or Zeletin to the core ideas of generic liberalism.

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