Mihai Botez despre intelectuali si spatiul cultural european
Mihai Botez on Intellectuals and the European Cultural Space

Summary/Abstract: Mihai Botez was a mathematician, a researcher in future studies and also one of the most important Romanian dissidents. The document we publish is an essay that Botez wrote in 1985 for a conference organized in Madrid on the topic of European cultural space. His text, entitled Intellectual, intellectuals and spaces without frontiers – an Eastern approach, discusses the problem of barriers blocking the free circulation of people and ideas. In his paper, Mihai Botez emphasizes also the fact that the Western world had a distorted imagine of the Communist countries and in order to promote an Europe united through ideas, intellectuals had to become autonomous. Botez also talks about the need for activation in Eastern Europe of the largest part of intellectuals, those situated between the „aligned” intellectuals and the dissidents

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