O victimă a corectitudinii politice (ante litteram): Aron Densuşianu
A Victim of “Political Correctness” (ante litteram): Aron Densușianu

Summary/Abstract: My approach focuses on one of the strangest cases in Romanian culture at the age of modern crystallizations: the Aron Densușianu case. As it is known, even if haunted by axiological entropisms, the second half of the 19th century is also the age of a cultural paradigm shift, thanks to «Junimea» group and to Maiorescu. It is only that A. Densușianu, a classicist spirit and a meticulous literary critic, rises against the new cultural climate, vehemently attacking its prominent figures. In Maiorescu’s wake, posterity has constantly invoked the Transylvanian teacher’s lack of literary taste, but a synoptic look at his writings reveals that this argument is secondary: Aron Densușianu is neither a petty ignorant, nor a pathetic Zoil, but a victim of "political correctness", ante litteram.

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