Maşinăria politică, societatea civilă şi critica culturii
Political Machinery, Civil Society, and the Culture Critique

Summary/Abstract: Taking as a starting point in discussion the new proposal issued by intellectuals in Romania on setting-up a new centre right political party, this article analyses the role of the intellectuals during the transition in Romania. Unlike to the period 1990 – 2000 when the intellectuals had rebuilt the civil society which then they handed out to be used by democratic political parties, in the last period of time intellectuals have been trying to invent new modes of participation in and influence on the political life. The civil society as it had been built by intellectuals was based various forms of communication and mobilization which now days became ineffective. Intellectuals are now trying to put at work the tradition of the Romanian critique of culture for building up new ideological form to be seen as common for both liberal and conservatory forces

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