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Zevedei Barbu
Zevedei Barbu

An Exercise in Intellectual Biography

Author(s): Marius Stan
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Zevedei Barbu; apostasy; totalitarianism; democracy; intellectuals

Summary/Abstract: Focused on one of the main voices in the totalitarian debates during the first decades of the Cold War, the article retrieves the political and intellectual biography of the Romanian-British sociologist Zevedei Barbu (1914-1993). The main goal is to apprehend and deconstruct the canvas of apostasy related to the humanist Leftist intellectual turned into an important antitotalitarian thinker. Furthermore, the article discusses Barbu's main contributions to the field of historical psychology and conceptual framework.

  • Issue Year: 15/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 515-528
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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