Costică Brădățan
Costică Brădățan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of several books, and his work has been translated into many languages, including Dutch, German, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Farsi. Bradatan writes regularly for such publications as the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, Dissent, and The New Statesman, and serves as the Religion/Comparative Studies Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
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Nació y se crio en el barrio de San Blas en Madrid, y se licenció en Historia, especializándose en Historia Medieval, por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Es escritora, dramaturga y directora escénica.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
(Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης)
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Theodor Paleologu este deputat de București începând cu legislatura 2008-2012, fiind ales în 2008 din partea Partidului Democrat Liberal și în 2012 din partea Alianței România Dreaptă.
A fost ambasador al României în Danemarca și Islanda în perioada 2005 - 2008.
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* Despre conservatism, în volumul "Nostalgia Europei", coordonat de Cristian Bădiliță și Tudorel Urian (Ed. Polirom, Iași, 2003);
* Joseph de Maistre sau bunul simț ca paradox, postfață la antologia "Joseph de Maistre, Providență și istorie" (Ed. Anastasia, București, 1998).
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Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
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Între 1890 și 1893 se stabilește în Germania. După ce a studiat un semestru la München, fiind student al lui Carl Stumpf, se mută la Leipzig. Acolo, timp de trei ani, lucrează în laboratorul vestitului psiholog Wilhelm Wundt. Alături de studiile psihologice, pe care le face sub îndrumarea profesorului Wundt, frecventează și alte cursuri, dintre care cele de fizică, fiziologie, chimie, psihiatrie și matematică sunt cele pe care le frecventează regulat. De asemenea, frecventează cursul de filologie româ