Dylematy zmiany : pisarze rumuńscy XIX wieku wobec ideologii zachowawczej : studium przypadku

The book speaks of dilemmas of a backward country whose native intellectuals endeavoured to elaborate models of accelerated, if not leaped, development whilst preserving a national identity. This issue was every once a while taken up by the region’s artistic intelligentsia or, more broadly, intellectual elites. This treatise, having to do with the history of ideas and intellectual history alike, consists of three chapters. The first chapter offers a broadly-set contextual introduction to the intellectual history of Romania in the first half of the nineteenth century, the two other chapters offering a reconstruction and analysis of views and attitudes of the two dominant personages of Romanian nineteenth-century intellectual life: Titu Maiorescu (1840–1917) and Mihai(l) Eminescu (1850–89), whose heritage occupies a key place in Romanian historiographic debates. Author’s argument includes also sociological observations and conclusions of universal or regional significance.