Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea: Wrong Time, Wrong Face, Wrong Place
Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea: Wrong Time, Wrong Face, Wrong Place

Summary/Abstract: Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea might have become an internationally famous socialist thinker and/or one of the founding fathers of the sociology of knowledge. He became neither, and this was largely due to his having settled in a country where socialism was regarded as a “foreign plant” and where his Jewish origins were a serious hindrance, of which he was keenly aware. Advocating assimilation, Gherea was not a Zionist. Advocating gradual socio-economic development, he was suspicious of Leninist voluntarism. There is a striking resemblance between Gherea and “young Karl Marx”, to whose writings he is unlikely to have had access. His perceptions of the role intellectuals play in society place him along such later figures as Antonio Gramsci, Karl Mannheim or Roberto Michels.

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