Identitatea bănăţeană - o revendicare bovarică?
The Banat Identity

Summary/Abstract: The dialogue between professor H.R.Patapievici and the teachers and students of the Timisoara Open College is a follow-up to a series of seminars and debates which took place on the occasion of various visits paid by personalities of the cultural and scientific milieu - in Romania and abroad- , to the Third Europe Foundation. The transcript features a discussion focusing on the legitimity of the claims to a distinct, Central European, identity of the Banat. The starting point is an article signed by H.R.Patapievici, in which he contested the cultural accuracy of the Third Europe project in the current Romania context. The second part of the discussion with H.R. Patapievici features strong interventions from professors Cornel Ungureanu and Mircea Mihăieş. The talks concentrate on the strenghtening of the identity-focused discourse after 1990 and on various approaches to the question of regional identity in Romania. Mr. Patapievici sees fragile identities as representative for modernity, while Ungureanu emphasises the importance of the existence of a cultural project in the region in order help the creation of a competitive body of specialists in the field of Central European culture.

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