Influența ideilor herderiene asupra gândirii lui Simion Bărnuțiu
The Influence of Herderian Ideas on the Thinking of Simion Bărnuțiu

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the new historiographical perspective on J.G. Herder’s philosophy and how his ideas were received and adapted by the Romanian intellectuals of Transylvania in the nineteenth century. The meanings of Herderian ideas acquire a new outlook by highlighting his distinctive methodology for historical inquiry, based on historicism, the plurality of values and the uniqueness of each culture, by his striving to combine the particular with the universal, and by his national conception, which integrates cultural and political aspects. The case study dedicated to Simion Bărnuțiu reveals the importance of the references provided by the German experience: the manner of conceiving nation (ethnonation, organicism, community unity through language), the fight against assimilationist policies, the right to develop one’s own culture, the usage of principles of historicism, the link between language and national culture, the role of national educational institutions. The circulation of Herderian ideas was facilitated by the general atmosphere of romanticism, journalism and intermediaries, such as jurist Friedrich-Karl von Savigny.

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