Gabriel Liiceanu (; b. May 23, 1942,

Râmnicu Vâlcea Râmnicu Vâlcea (also spelled ''Rîmnicu Vîlcea'' or, in the past, ''Rîmnic-Vâlcea'', ) (population: 92,573 as per the 2011 Romanian census) is the county capital ( ro, Reședință de județ) and also the largest town of Vâlcea County, cent ...

) is a

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n philosopher. He graduated from the

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's Faculty of Philosophy in 1965, and from Faculty of Classical Languages in 1973. He earned a

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in philosophy at the University of Bucharest in 1976. Between 1965 and 1975, Liiceanu was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, and between 1975 and 1989 at the Institute of Art History. He received a fellowship from the

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between 1982 and 1984. He has been the manager of

Humanitas publishing house Humanitas ( ro, Editura Humanitas) is an independent Romanian publishing house, founded on February 1, 1990 (after the Romanian Revolution) in Bucharest by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu, based on a state-owned publishing house, Editura Politi ...

since 1990 . He has been professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy since 1992. Liiceanu is also a founding member of the Group for Social Dialogue (1990), president of the Romanian Publishers' Association (since 2000), and member of the scientific council of New Europe College. Between 1998 and 2001, he was a member of the Romanian National Television's Administrative Board. He was greatly influenced by his mentor,

Constantin Noica Constantin Noica (; – 4 December 1987) was a Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet. His preoccupations were throughout all philosophy, from epistemology, philosophy of culture, axiology and philosophic anthropology to ontology and logics, ...

, especially during the time spent at Păltiniș, an experience that he evokes in "Jurnalul de la Păltiniș" ("The Păltiniș Diary"). Noica, a Romanian philosopher known abroad as well as in the country, used to take his most valuable students and followers to his small house at Păltiniș, where he would teach them what they afterwards called "not philosophy lessons, but spiritual experiences". Another Noica follower who was invited to Păltiniș was

Andrei Pleșu Andrei Gabriel Pleșu (; born 23 August 1948) is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic. He has been intermittently involved in politics, having been appointed Minister of Culture (1989–91), Minister of Foreign A ...

(Liiceanu and Pleșu are still friends today). Liiceanu refers to that experience in his books as the "Păltiniș School" and the term began to be widely accepted and used in Romanian, as well as European, philosophy. Liiceanu continued to publish well into the 2000s, and he remains a mainstream figure in Romanian intellectual public life, with close connections with Andrei Pleșu,

Monica Lovinescu Monica Lovinescu (; 19 November 1923 – 20 April 2008) was a Romanian essayist, short story writer, literary critic, translator, and journalist, noted for her activities as an opponent of the Romanian Communist regime. She published severa ...

, and

Virgil Ierunca Virgil Ierunca (; born Virgil Untaru ; August 16, 1920, Lădești, Vâlcea County – September 28, 2006, Paris) was a Romanian literary critic, journalist and poet. He was married to Monica Lovinescu. Both Ierunca and Lovinescu worked for severa ...

. One critic, Gabriel Andreescu, suggested that Liiceanu allegedly facilitated

extremism Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied share ...

by allowing his publishing house to edit the works of inter-war (Communist-persecuted) Romanian figures whom Andreescu accused of being "ideologues of right-wing extremism".

Work

Books

* ''Tragicul. O fenomenologie a limitei și depășirii'' (''The Tragic - A Phenomenology of limit and overtaking''), 1975 * ''Încercare în politropia omului și a culturii'' (''Essay on the polytropy of man and culture''), 1981 * ''Jurnalul de la Păltiniș. Un model paideic în cultura umanistă'' (''The Paltiniş Diary: A Paideic Model in Humanist Culture''), 1983 * ''Le Journal de Păltiniș'', La Decouverte, Paris, 1998 * ''Paltiniș Diary'', CEU Press, Budapest and New York, 2000 * ''Epistolar'' (''Epistolary''), 1987, coauthor and editor * ''Apel către lichele'' (''Appeal to knaves''), 1992 * ''Cearta cu filozofia. Eseuri'' (''Quarrel with philosophy. Essays''), 1992 * ''Despre limită'' (''On limit''), 1994 * ''De la limite'', Ed. Michalon, Paris, 1997 * ''Itinerariile unei vieţi: EM. Cioran urmat de Apocalipsa după Cioran. Trei zile de convorbiri - 1990'', 1995 * ''Itineraires d'une vie: E.M. Cioran suivi de Les Continents de l'insomnie'', Ed. Michalon, Paris, 1995 * ''Apocalypsen enligt Cioran'', Dualis Forlags, Ludvika, Suedia, 1997 * ''Declarație de iubire'' (''Love declaration''), 2001 * ''Ușa interzisă'' (''The Forbidden door''), 2002 * ''Om și simbol. Interpretări ale simbolului în teoria artei și filozofia culturii'' (''Man and Symbol. Interpretations of the symbol in art theory and culture philosophy''), 2005 * ''Despre minciună'' (''On lie''), 2006 * ''Despre ură'' (''On hate''), 2007 * ''Scrisori către fiul meu'', 2008 * ''Întâlnire cu un necunoscut'', 2010 * ''Întâlnire în jurul unei palme Zen'', 2011 * ''Meeting with a Stranger'' His books are currently being published in Brazil by Editora Ecclesiae.

Translations

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, Aristotelic commentators, German philosophers (

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Movies

* ''Exercițiu de admirație'' (''Exercise of Admiration''), 1991, with Constantin Chelba (coauthor) * interview with

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, 1992 * ''Apocalipsa după Cioran'' (''Apocalypse according to

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''), 1995, with Sorin Ilieșiu (coauthor)

Audiobooks

* ''Ușa interzisă'' (''The Forbidden Door''), 2003 * ''Noica'', 2003, with

(coauthor) * ''Apel către lichele'' (''Appeal to knaves''), 2006 * ''Declaraţie de iubire'' (''Love declaration''), 2006 * ''Sebastian, mon frère. Scrisoare către un frate mai mare'' (''Sebastian, mon frère. Letter to an elder brother''), 2006 * ''Strategii ale seducţiei. De la Romeo și Julieta la sărutul cioranian'' (''Strategies of seduction. From Romeo and Juliet to Cioranian kiss''), 2006

Awards

* Romanian Writers' Union Prize, 1983, for ''Păltiniș Diary'' * Chevalier de l'

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, 1992 * Great Prize of the Romanian Film-makers Union, 1992, ex-aequo, for ''Exercise of Admiration'' * Cross of Merit, First class, of the

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, 2006, for promotion of German language and culture in Romania * Knight of the

Order of the Star of Romania The Order of the Star of Romania (Romanian: ''Ordinul Steaua României'') is Romania's highest civil Order and second highest State decoration after the defunct Order of Michael the Brave. It is awarded by the President of Romania. It has five r ...

, 2006

References

External links

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