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Părintele Nicolae Steinhardt – intuiţii axiologice sau despre scris ca boierie culturală
Father Nicolae Steinhardt – Axiological Intuitions or On Writing as Cultural Lordliness

Author(s): Diana Câmpan
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Renaşterea Cluj
Keywords: virtues; culture; correspondence; poetry; literary critique

Summary/Abstract: This critical essay is intended to debate a few aspects less known of the personality of Father Nicolae Steinhardt, whose opinions regarding the evolution, the status, the mechanisms and the identity of the Romanian culture prove both pertinent and interesting when immersed in contemporary reality. Especially in his volumes of correspondence and memoires, one can fi nd ideas, attitudes, confessions, theories and analyses which mirror an intellectual and man of letters with an obvious axiological vocation, drawing his fundaments from a plural cultural basis. The text renders especially his beliefs regarding the condition of the writer in society and the mechanism that led to the disruption of the cultural balance in the national and European space alike; in this context, Father Steinhardt had the gift of some obvious premonitions

  • Issue Year: VI/2012
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 50-54
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian