Nae Ionescu’s Impenetrable Boundaries: Romanianness, Otherness, Jewishness
Nae Ionescu’s Impenetrable Boundaries: Romanianness, Otherness, Jewishness

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to reconfigure the symbolic borders Nae Ionescu constructs in order to define Romanianness - What cluster of symbols are declared relevant in order to create the community of belonging? On a second approach, putting the emphasis on the correlative nature of the social world, I will be interested to identify how this symbolic construction conditions the political solution he sustains – How is the individual integrated within the state? What is the relation between citizenship and national community? Finally, as constructing identity means both including what is perceived as similar and excluding what is defined as different, a third emphasis will be put on the antisemitic discourse Ionescu develops and its consonance with the essentialist view he proposes.

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