Fiinţă, istoricitate şi hegemonie în Schimbarea la faţă a României
Being, historicity and hegemony in Schimbarea la faţă a României

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the economic and political actions suggested by Emil Cioran in The Transfiguration of Romania, which were seen as necessary in the so-called process of Romania’s transfiguration. The transfiguration of Romania means its entering history, therefore time, and its bringing forth to life – given the fact that life is time. Thus transfiguration is Romania’s founding process by activating its historicity. From this perspective, the “measures” suggested by Cioran – from Westernization to Nazism – judged at opposite ends by some of Cioran’s interpreters, acquire a totally new meaning, unveiling their sheer unity. If we accept that being and time are placed in an inextricable relationship, the Cioranian endeavour gets enriched with still a larger signification: the bringing forth of Romania into temporality means its bringing into the horizon of being. The concept of transfiguration is related here, as well as in Cioran’s other works, to the concept of agony or of the “agonic method”. Transfiguration is achieved only by means of agony, by exalting the tragic inherent to conscious life; in the present situation, by pushing to paroxysm the Romanians’ discontent as to their condition: their belonging to a small culture. At its peak, such dissatisfaction meets the missionary goal of Romania and its claim to hegemony in the Balkans.

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