Zevedei Barbu
Zevedei Barbu
An Exercise in Intellectual Biography
Author(s): Marius StanSubject(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.
Journal: Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review
- Issue Year: 15/2015
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 515-528
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English