Teoria maioresciană asupra culturii. O recitire
Titu Maiorescu’s Cultural Theory Revisited

Summary/Abstract: What else does Maiorescu’s 1868 study entitled În contra direcţiei de azi în cultura română [Against Today’s Direction in the Romanian Culture] manage to impart to Romania’s present-day readers? Is his theory of culture, known as the theory of forms without substance, still valid today? The present study questions the posterity of Maiorescu’s theory, equally embraced and continued by the advocates of the Europeanization of Romanian Culture and its integration into the European system of values, and by the supporters of Nationalism and local ethic values. In fact, we reconsider the concept of truth, which needs to be understood within the context of all rhetorical strategies employed to make a change in the Romanian society. We argue that the changes envisaged by Maiorescu were meant to foster the adherence of the Romanian society to the European values.

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