ESENŢA SUBSTANŢEI ŞI POSTULATELE VEDERII NOOSICE
THE ESSENCE OF SUBSTANCE AND THE POSTULATES OF NOOSIC VIEW

Summary/Abstract: Noica said in a text from Literary Romania (1986): „If someone hesitates to rank Camil Petrescu among the greats of Romanian culture, then he will have to read The Doctrine of Substance”. And Noica’s thought is taken further by Alexandru Paleologu in About the really important things (1997): „The Doctrine of Substance is a powerful antidote to the laziness of the mind. There is in this book an extreme tension, not a moment reduced, to keep the intelligence in the act […]. I am afraid, however, that posterity is not very willing to give The Doctrine of Substance the credit and attention that makes such a massive book being read”. And he concludes: „the intellectual exaltation that this moment of Romanian intelligence causes the lecturer is not exempt from the shadow of a sadness: the improbability of the international audience. But, at least among us, will the greeting have the echo it deserves”? One of the most successful portraits enjoyed by Camil Petrescu is the one made by Ion Ianoși in Literature and Philosophy (1986): „Camil Petrescu was one of our most contradictory authors, in a paradoxical sense; and continues to confuse the exegetes [...]. The readers will overcome the Doctrine of Substance more difficult than Blaga’s trilogies”. Moreover, Tertullian writes: “At a commemorative meeting, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the writer’s death, a series of fragments from the Science of Substance were read at the House of Writers. The fact, an intellectual event in itself, went completely unnoticed”. Camil himself speaks in the „Preliminary Note” to his manuscript of „a kind of perverse banning”. Camil did not give up: „my case is a particular case with a touch of tragic grotesque”. This is why I never get tired of always bringing Camil Petrescu’s philosophy to attention, and I stop in the present study on a series of considerations about the essence of substance and the postulates of the noosic view.

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