Gabriel Liiceanu
Gabriel Liiceanu este un filozof, interpret și scriitor român. Discipol al filozofului Constantin Noica, în perioada comunistă s-a făcut remarcat ca interpret al filozofului german Martin Heidegger. Din 1990 este directorul Editurii Humanitas, una dintre cele mai importante instituții culturale române, proiect formulat în anii Școlii de la Păltiniș.
După Revoluția din 1989 a participat la principalele dezbateri publice din spațiul cultural și politic românesc, dobândind statutul de intelectual public important, dar stârnind în același timp și critici acerbe. În 1995 a apărut filmul documentar Apocalipsa după Cioran, după un scenariu de Gabriel Liiceanu, conținând singurul interviu românesc filmat al filozofului Emil Cioran. După 2000, a real
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Ana Blandiana, pe numele ei civil Otilia Valeria Coman, (n. 25 martie 1942, Timișoara) este o scriitoare și luptătoare pentru libertate civică în România. Înainte de revoluția din 1989, faimoasă disidentă și apărătoare a drepturilor omului, a avut curajul să-l înfrunte direct pe dictatorul Nicolae Ceaușescu prin declarații publice în interviuri acordate postului de radio Europa Liberă și unor publicații din străinătate.
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Ana Blandiana s-a implicat în viața civică printr-o serie de acțiuni în cadrul Alianței Civice. În prezent conduce Memorialul de la Sighet, un institut de studiere a crimelor comunismului, cu un centru de cercetare care organizează anual conferințe, sesiuni științifice și expoziții pe tema fenomenului totalitar.
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Cristina A. Bejan
Cristina A. Bejan is a Rhodes and Fulbright scholar. She has had fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Wilson Center and Georgetown University.
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She received her Masters and DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford and her BA in Philosophy (Honors) from Northwestern University, where she also studied theatre. While a researcher for USHMM, she authored 64 articles on camps in Africa and Europe for the "Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos - Vol. 3." She currently teaches history at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
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Ioana Pârvulescu
Ioana Pârvulescu este o eseistă, publicistă, critic literar român și conferențiar la Universitatea din București. (Wikipedia)
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Octavian Paler
Octavian Paler was born on July 2, 1926 in a small village called Lisa in Brasov, Romania. He is a writer, journalist and editor and he comments the political and cultural events in Romania.
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He attended classes at the primary school in his birth village and after went to the Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest. He went to the Law College and Literature and Philosophy College at the same time.
Between 1974 and 1979 he was a substitute member of the PCR (Romanian Communist Party) and between 1980 and 1985 he was a MAN deputy of Vaslui.
In 1976 he was chosen President of Journalists' Council and for 13 years, since 1970 chief editor of the central newspaper "Romania Libera".
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Radu Tudoran
He was born in Blejoi, Prahova County, Romania, at 8 March 1910, his real name Nicolae Bogza, being the brother of Geo Bogza. His manifested strong nostalgia for traveling on the seas, he probably inherited from his father, Alexandru Bogza, clerk of the commercial marine.
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After he finishes the Military High school from Manastirea Dealu in 1930 and, than, the Military School from Sibiu in 1932, he works for 6 years (1932-1938), as an Officer of Romanian Army.
He gives up to his military career in 1938, year in which he makes his debut with a story in the “Lumea Româ
neasca” (“Romanian World”) magazine, led by Zaharia Stancu. There is an obvious connection between his resignation from army and his first literary successes. In the same year, he c -
Emil M. Cioran
Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Cioran wrote his first five books in Romanian. Some of these are collections of brief essays (one or two pages, on average); others are collections of aphorisms. Suffering from insomnia since his adolescent years in Sibiu, the young Cioran studied philosophy in the “little Paris” of Bucarest.
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A prolific publicist, he became a well-known figure, along with Mircea Eliade, Constantin Noïca, and his future close friend Eugene Ionesco (with whom he shared the Royal Foundation’s Young Writers Prize in 1934 for his first book, On the Heights of Despair). -
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Liliana Corobca
Liliana Corobca s-a nascut la 10 octombrie 1975, in satul Saseni, judetul Orhei, Republica Moldova. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere a Universitatii de Stat din Moldova, sectia romana-latina. Este doctor in filologie (conducator stiintific: prof. Nicolae Manolescu) la Universitatea din Bucuresti, cu teza Personajul in romanul romanesc interbelic, Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 2003. A debutat cu romanul Negrissimo, Editura Arc, Chisinau, 2003 (Premiul „Prometheus“ pentru debut al revistei Romania literara, Premiul de debut al Uniunii Scriitorilor din Republica Moldova). A editat corespondenta din exil a lui Al. Busuioceanu, Un roman epistolar al exilului romanesc, vol. I si II, Editura Jurnalul literar, Bucuresti, 2003, 2004), Poezia roman
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Augustine of Hippo
Early church father and philosopher Saint Augustine served from 396 as the bishop of Hippo in present-day Algeria and through such writings as the autobiographical Confessions in 397 and the voluminous City of God from 413 to 426 profoundly influenced Christianity, argued against Manichaeism and Donatism, and helped to establish the doctrine of original sin.
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An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.
People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."
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Andrei Pleșu
Andrei Gabriel Pleșu is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic. He has been intermittently involved in politics assuming the roles of Minister of Culture (1989-91), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997-99) and presidential counsellor for external affairs (2004-05).
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He studied art history at the University of Bucharest and graduated with his bachelor's in 1971. Between 1971 and 1989 he had various jobs like researcher at the Institute of Art History, an institution of Romanian Academy, faculty lecturer in University of Bucharest and consultant for Romanian Artists Union.
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Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger); ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero, who later forced him to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to have him assassinated.
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Narine Abgaryan
Наринэ Абгарян
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Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, since 1993 lives in Moscow. She became known after the publication of the autobiographical book "Manyunya" (2010). With this book, she became a laureate of the Russian National Literary Prize "Manuscript of the Year" in the nomination "Language". Entered the long list of nominees for the 2011 Big Book Award. -
Adrian Schiop
Adrian Schiop a absolvit Facultatea de Psihologie şi Ştiinţe ale Educaţiei, secţia pedagogie - limba şi literatura română, a Universităţii "Babeş-Bolyai" din Cluj. Urmează, apoi, un Master în Lingvistică Integrală la Facultatea de Litere a aceleiaşi Universităţi.
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A lucrat ca profesor de limba şi literatura română (1997 - 2001, Cluj-Napoca), zugrav (2002, Auckland, Noua Zeelandă), jurnalist (2004 - 2010, Evenimentul Zilei, Prezent, Romania Liberă).
A debutat în revista Fracturi (2001) şi a publicat două romane: pe bune/pe invers (Polirom, 2004) şi Zero grade Kelvin (Polirom, 2009).
In 2009, a fost inclus in antologia 100towatch, a celor mai promiţători 100 de artişti români, coordonată de Tom Wilson şi Miloš Jovanović. -
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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David Hume
David Hume was a Scottish historian, philosopher, economist, diplomat and essayist known today especially for his radical philosophical empiricism and scepticism.
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In light of Hume's central role in the Scottish Enlightenment, and in the history of Western philosophy, Bryan Magee judged him as a philosopher "widely regarded as the greatest who has ever written in the English language." While Hume failed in his attempts to start a university career, he took part in various diplomatic and military missions of the time. He wrote The History of England which became a bestseller, and it became the standard history of England in its day.
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Thomas Mann
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Serbian: Tomas Man
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important -
Mircea Eliade
Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in the last century. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. He earned international fame with LE MYTHE DE L'ÉTERNAL RETOUR (1949, The Myth of the Eternal Return), an interpretation of religious symbols and imagery. Eliade was much interested in the world of the unconscious. The central theme in his novels was erotic love.
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Irving Stone
In 1923, Stone received his bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. In the 1960s, Stone received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Southern California, where he had previously earned a Masters Degree from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
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When at home, Stone relied upon the research facilities and expertise made available to him by Esther Euler, head research librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles, to whom he dedicated and thanked, in addition to many others, in several of his works.
Stone enjoyed a long marriage to his wife and editor on many of his works, Jean Stone. The Stones lived primarily in Los Angeles, California. During their lifetime, Stone and his wife funded -
Radu Paraschivescu
Radu Paraschivescu was born in 1960 in Bucharest, and grew up in Lugoj (Timiş), where he suffered a severe regime on home made chocolate, sugar candy and Doboş cake; he was accustomed to the idea that life is sweet and must be greedily crunched.
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He is a translator and co-author of two reference works in the sports literature (Larousse Encyclopedia of footbal and Athens Olympic Games in Athens: 1896-2004). He translated nearly sixty books of English, American, Canadian and French authors.
He published two novels (Efemeriada şi Balul fantomelor), a volume of stories about Bucharest (Bazar bizar) and one essay about dishonesty in sports (Fanionul roșu - 2005), for which he received the "Ioan Chirilă" National Award for best sports book of the ye -
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.
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Logotherapy was promoted as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy, after those established by Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler.
Frankl published 39 books. The autobiographical Man's Search for Meaning, a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps. -
Constantin Noica
Constantin Noica s-a născut la 12 iulie (stil vechi) 1909 în comuna Vitănești, județul Vlașca (în prezent în județul Teleorman).
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Începe gimnaziul în București; în perioada 1924-1928 urmează Liceul „Spiru Haret”, unde îl are ca profesor de matematică pe poetul Uvedenrodelor, Ion Barbu (Dan Barbilian). Obține bacalaureatul în 1928.
Ca licean, debutează în revista liceului, Vlăstarul, în 1927 cu eseuri care au fost publicate în anul 1934 în volumul „Mathesis sau bucuriile simple”.
Se înscrie la Facultatea de Filosofie și Litere din București, pe care o va absolvi în 1931 cu teza de licență Problema lucrului în sine la Kant. Timp de trei ani îl are ca profesor pe filosoful Nae Ionescu. Din 1965 se stabilește în București, unde va lucra ca cercetăt -
Neagu Djuvara
NEAGU M. DJUVARA s-a născut la Bucureşti în 1916, într-o familie de origine aromână aşezată în ţările române la sfârşitul secolului al XVIII-lea, care a dat ţării mai mulţi oameni politici, diplomaţi şi universitari. Licenţiat în litere la Sorbona (istorie, 1937) şi doctor în drept (Paris, 1940). Participă la campania din Basarabia şi Transnistria ca elev-ofiţer de rezervă (iunie-noiembrie 1941); rănit în apropiere de Odessa. Intrat prin concurs la Ministerul de Externe în mai 1943, este trimis curier diplomatic la Stockholm în dimineaţa zilei de 23 august 1944, în legătură cu negocierile de pace cu Uniunea Sovietică. Numit secretar de legaţie la Stockholm de guvernul Sănătescu, va rămâne în Suedia până în septembrie 1947, când comuniştii p
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Panait Istrati
Panait Istrati was a Romanian working-class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.
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Born in Brăila, Istrati was the son of the laundress Joița Istrate and of a Greek smuggler from the village of Faraklata in Kefalonia (whom Panait never met).
His first attempts at writing date from around 1907 when he started sending pieces to the socialist periodicals in Romania, debuting with the article, Hotel Regina in România Muncitoare. Here, he later published his first short stories, Mântuitorul ("The Redeemer"), Calul lui Bălan ("Bălan's Horse"), Familia noastră ("Our Family"), 1 Mai ("May Day"). He also contributed pieces to -
Cătălin Vasilescu
CĂTĂLIN VASILESCU (n. 1959), profesor de chirurgie la Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie din București și șef al Disciplinei Chirurgie Generală a Institutului Clinic Fundeni, a adus contribuții importante în chirurgia oncologică, chirurgia robotică și cercetarea medicală, mai ales în genomică. Are preocupări constante pentru istoria medicinei și istoria ideilor, mai ales din timpul Primului Război Mondial, domenii în care a publicat articole despre Dimitrie Gerota („Istoria lucrului bine făcut“, 2005), Toma Ionescu („Thoma Ionescu sau Wilhelm von Waldeyer? Istoria unei idei călătoare“, 2010), Victor Gomoiu („Operația Thoma Ionescu–Victor Gomoiu“, 2016), Fritz Haber („Chimia aerului – tragicul caz al lui Fritz Haber, laureat al Premiului
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Cosmin Popa
Cosmin Popa este cercetător ştiinţific II în cadrul Programului IV „România şi Europa în secolul XX” (Institutul de Istorie „Nicolae Iorga”, Academia Română). Specializat în istoria URSS-Rusiei și istoria Europei Centrale şi de Sud-Est, perioada comunistă și contemporană. Studii universitare la București și Moscova. Doctor în istorie al Universității București din 2007, studii postdoctorale, între 2011 şi 2013. Membru al Comisiei Mixte a Istoricilor din România și Federația Rusă, membrual Comisiei româno-rusă pentru studierea problemelor izvorâte din istoria relaţiilor bilaterale, inclusiv problema Tezaurului României, depus la Moscova în timpul Primului Război Mondial. Cadru didactic asociat al Universității „Ovidius” din Constanța, al Ins
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John Farndon
John Farndon is an internationally known author, as well as a playwright, composer and songwriter, whose work has been performed at such theatres as the Donmar and Almeida in London and the Salisbury Playhouse and selected for showcases, such as Beyond the Gate.
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He has written hundreds of books, which have sold millions of copies around the world in most major languages and include many best-sellers, such as the award-winning Do Not Open, which received rave reviews in the USA and became a cult-hit as well as featuring on the New York Times and Washington Post best-seller lists. In earlier years, he wrote mostly for children, and has been shortlisted a record four times for the junior Science Book prize. Books such as How Science Works and H -
Hannah Pakula
Hannah Pakula is the author of "The Last Empress," which was a New York Times notable book, "The Last Romantic: A Biograpy of Queen Marie of Roumania," which was called by Graham Greene the best biography and one of the three best books of the year, and "An Uncommon Woman: Empress Frederick," which was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. Pakula has also written for magazines including Vanity Fair and book reviews for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. She lives in New York City.
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Married to Robert L. Boorstin and widowed at thirty-five, she was married for twenty-five years to filmmaker Alan J. Pakula, who died in a freak car accident in 1998. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill medal in human rights. -
Constantin Noica
Constantin Noica s-a născut la 12 iulie (stil vechi) 1909 în comuna Vitănești, județul Vlașca (în prezent în județul Teleorman).
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Începe gimnaziul în București; în perioada 1924-1928 urmează Liceul „Spiru Haret”, unde îl are ca profesor de matematică pe poetul Uvedenrodelor, Ion Barbu (Dan Barbilian). Obține bacalaureatul în 1928.
Ca licean, debutează în revista liceului, Vlăstarul, în 1927 cu eseuri care au fost publicate în anul 1934 în volumul „Mathesis sau bucuriile simple”.
Se înscrie la Facultatea de Filosofie și Litere din București, pe care o va absolvi în 1931 cu teza de licență Problema lucrului în sine la Kant. Timp de trei ani îl are ca profesor pe filosoful Nae Ionescu. Din 1965 se stabilește în București, unde va lucra ca cercetăt -
Andrei Pleșu
Andrei Gabriel Pleșu is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic. He has been intermittently involved in politics assuming the roles of Minister of Culture (1989-91), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997-99) and presidential counsellor for external affairs (2004-05).
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He studied art history at the University of Bucharest and graduated with his bachelor's in 1971. Between 1971 and 1989 he had various jobs like researcher at the Institute of Art History, an institution of Romanian Academy, faculty lecturer in University of Bucharest and consultant for Romanian Artists Union.
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Paul Goma
A publicat la Editura de Stat pentru Literatură și Artă romanul Ostinato și a debutat la revista Luceafărul cu povestirea Când tace toba (1966).
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După 1989 i s-au publicat și în România o parte din cărți. I-au apărut articole în revistele Vatra, Familia, Timpul, Jurnalul literar. -
Matei Călinescu
Matei Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.
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He attended the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Bucharest, taking his diploma in 1952. He emigrated from Romania to the United States in 1973. Emeritus Professor at Indiana University. He lived with his wife in Bloomington, Indiana. -
Heinrich Robert Zimmer
Heinrich Robert Zimmer (1890-1943) was an Indologist & historian of South Asian art. He began his career studying Sanskrit & linguistics at the Univ. of Berlin where he graduated in 1913. Between 1920-24 he lectured at the Univ. of Greifswald, moving to Heidelberg to fill the Chair of Indian Philology. In 1938 he was dismissed by the Nazis. He emigrated to England where between 1939-40 he taught at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1942 he moved to NY to accept a Visiting Lecturer position in Philosophy at Columbia Univ. One of his students during this time period was Joseph Campbell. He died there, of pneumonia, in 1943. His method was to examine religious images using their sacred significance as a key to their psychic transformation. His use o
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