DEZBATEREA INTERBELICĂ DE IDEI ŞI POLEMICILE LUI LUCIAN BLAGA CU „GÎNDIRIŞTII”
The Interwar Debate of Ideas and Lucian Blaga’s Controversies with the ”Thinkers”

Summary/Abstract: In the diversity of philosophical trends after World War I and of the fierce confrontations between dialectics and irrationalism, in Romania we witness the first attempts to approach the original philosophical disciplines, thanks to specialists trained in major European universities. Thus, during the interwar period, the Romanian philosophy participates, through several representatives (C. Rădulescu-Motru, Ion Petrovici, Mircea Florian, P. P. Negulescu, Lucian Blaga, Nae Ionescu etc.) in the great European debate of ideas. The emphasis, within the local philosophical effervescence, falls on the ideological position of the Romanian thinkers, the American historian Keith Hitchins identifying three categories of orientations: Europeanists, traditionalists and followers of the third way. Among the representatives of these doctrinal groups, the system of thought of Lucian Blaga stands out, who, although initially integrated in the cultural movement of Gândirea magazine, in which he collaborated over two decades, later detached from the traditionalist and conservative conceptions of the publication led by Nichifor Crainic, adopting a modern, European position, after 1942, with the issue of his Religion and Spirit (from the structure of the Trilogy of Values). The result of this „insurgent” act consisted in the concerted attacks of „thinking” theologians not only in the magazine sponsored by them, but also in other publications of the time, which supported Orthodox ideas, the most eloquent example being illustrated by the book of theologian Dumitru Staniloaie , entitled Mr. L. Blaga’s View on Christianity and Orthodoxy.

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