Adrian Marino and the Ideea of Freedom. A Necesary Reevaluation and Challenge

• Main Author: Ionuţ COSTEA
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Vasile Goldis Western University, Arad 2011-01-01
• Series: Studii de Stiinta si Cultura
• Subjects: History of Ideas; Ideology; Culture; Liberalism; Enlightment; Post communism
• Online Access: http://www.revista-studii-uvvg.ro/images/stories/27/9%20Costea.pdf

The study aims to highlight a turn in Marino Adrian's intellectual identity. This change wasconfirmed in memorialistic feature texts (dialogues, memories) printed after the events of December1989 and it is seen at some program writings, which are militant in order to define a new Romanianculture, based on a real dialog with the West, animated by a critical spirit, being original andoriented through fundamental writings, synthesis and encyclopedias. If at cultural level, Marinoasserted his desire to build a new culture, at social level he believed in building up a civil society,dominated by the values of democracy and of human rights. In this context, Marino’s interest movesfrom the criticism and literary theory to the history of ideas and ideologies, in order to define aliberal culture necessary to the deep modernization and Europeanization of the Post communistRomania.1