Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism, the Foundations of Romanian Sovereigntism in the 19th Century
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism, the Foundations of Romanian Sovereigntism in the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: Nineteenth century Romanian sovereigntism begins, seemingly contradictorily, with a cosmopolitan philosophy, subordinate to the Enlightenment, where nationalism, which is not missing from its composition, entails, besides love for one’s own nation, love for other nations as well. This nationalist-cosmopolitan philosophy will be gradually replaced, after the mid–19th century, by a type of nationalism with an economic foundation, in the European spirit of the time, dominated by Friedrich List’s design of economic nationalism. Even List’s (who does not permanently give up on the cosmopolitanism typical of the Enlightenment) economic nationalism will be abandoned by the Romanian authors of the time, in favour of a strictly sovereigntist view, in the spirit of a very clearly delineated, very modern and applied economic nationalism.

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