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Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 1
Title: Academician-professor Alexandru Surdu has gone into the light of Divine Thought
Marian NENCESCU
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 2-4
Abstract: December 11, 2020 turned out to be a bad day. The heart
of the academic-professor Alexandru Surdu stopped beating, just a few months
before his 83rd birthday (he was born in Brasov, on February 24, 1938). He was,
certainly, the most important Romanian philosopher of our time.
Keywords: philosophy; system; tribute; culture; journalism;
Title: "«Come back, Michel Foucault - we need you!»... but wear a mask!"
Viorella MANOLACHE
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 5-15
Abstract: The present article approaches
Bernard-Henri Lévy's method, that of emitting a set of reflections, organized
in the manner of a text-gesture, a mechanism analyzed including the way in
which Bernard-Henri Lévy reports in Ce virus qui rend fou (Bernard Grasset
Publishing House, Paris, 2020)/The Virus in the Age of Madness (Yale University
Press, New Haven & London, 2020) to Michel Foucault. In the reflection
dedicated to "Foucault journalist", Bernard-Henri Lévy wonders regarding
"what Michel Foucault is saying", starting from the finding - without a
doubt - that "there are more Foucaults". In the context of the
volumes dedicated to the virus, Lévy appeals to Foucault 1, the one present in
the very title of the introductory chapter of the first edition - Ce
virus qui rend fou - a Foucault directly invoked, drawn-imperatively-into-debate,
whose ideational substance underlies Lévy's reflective equation; and a Foucault
2, that of The Virus in the Age of Madness, whose reference is doubled by the
plus-meaning conferred by the statement "we need you!".
Keywords: Bernard-Henri Lévy; Michel Foucault;
Virus; Medical Crisis; Political Philosophy;
Ger GROOT
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 16-26
Abstract: In the beginning of his play, - Julius Caesar - Shakespeare shows how certain aristocrats, who still honoured - the
stern morals of the Republic, had second thoughts about Caesar's political
triumph. Nevertheless, compared to the enthusiasm of the people, their
authority did not amount to much anymore. We will have a closer look at this
scene, as in this essay I will discuss on Julius Caesar in his various
appearances, not only to shed light on the problem of borders, limits, frontiers or boundaries
(Grenze in German) in their various
aspects, but also to make this problematic visible
in scenes that apparently have nothing to do with philosophy.
Keywords: analyze; authority; order;
delimitation; rules; philosophy; politics;
Title:
"Europe and Islam: Conflict and cooperation on the Mediterranean shores"
Dragoș DRAGOMAN
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 27-37
Abstract:
The history of Europe in relationship with Islam is marked by a long-lasting
misunderstanding. There are not only the stereotypes and prejudices that
currently affect the image of Islam in the Western world, encompassing clichés
pertaining to violence, political instability, terrorism and religious
intolerance. There is a wide range of historical prejudices against the Islamic
religion itself, affecting the acceptance of its doctrine and practice as
normal religious belief and helping integrating it in the range of common
practices and beliefs. On the one hand, the new religion has been from the
begging emphasized as heretical, and therefore has been treated in the logic of
the crusade. On the other hand, later on, with the rise of the European
industrial capitalism and colonialism, the Orient has been transformed by
orientalism in a remote place of bizarre or exotic flavor. Both
misunderstandings have to be overpassed in order to emphasize effective
cohesion and cooperation.
Keywords:
Islam; European history; Orientalism; Oriental civilization;
Title: "Pages from an identity
epic: The Marmatians"
Marian NENCESCU
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 38-43
Abstract: The
Order of the Marmatian Knights is for professor and academician Alexandru Surdu
not only a pretext for philosophical meditation, but also a book of origins.
Speaking of the Marmatians, the wonderful people and places of the North of the
country: Oaş, Maramures and Bucovina, the author feels more than the emotion of
the man "from the center of the country, superficial connoisseur of the
border area", inevitably having on this subject also a philosophical
perspective.
Keywords: monograph;
origins; Marmatia; knights; meditations;
Title: "Proteus's
recompositions. Gheorghe (George) Manolache"
Cristina VOHN
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 44-47
Abstract: This
book is a manifestation of respect and gratitude towards the teacher and man of
culture Gheorghe I. Manolache - testifies about the existence of Romanian
cultural personalities who keep Romanian culture connected to the universal
culture and who contribute to the development of cultural currents in the
Romanian space for the major benefit of Romanian culture.
Keywords: book; gratitude; writer; teacher;
photos;
Title: "The exile - a
recurrent theme in the concerns of the literary critic Ștefan Ion Ghilimescu"
Mihaela ALBU
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 48-52
Abstract. The
literature of the exile is a main topic in Stefan Ion Ghilimescu's books, such
as Dinastia
de cărturari a Ciorăneștilor (co-author Mihai Gabriel
Popescu), 2000; România exilată.George & Alexandru Ciorănescu, 2008; Timpul și
oglinda. Contribuții ciorănesciene, 2019
or even in other composite volumes: Vederi și atitudini critice, 2013; Ochiul lentilei, 2017. First of
all, in our paper we put into evidence that many of Ghilimescu's studies
highlight the Romanian literature forbidden by the communist regime, because he
makes known important writers who lived and create far from their native
country. Secondly, we make the point that, unfortunately, Ghilimescu and other
literary historians, individually, replace official institutions (such as
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture, the Romanian Writers' Union
etc.), disinterested in rehabilitating the unity of the two literatures.
Keywords: Romanian
literature; exile; communist regime; Ștefan Ion
Ghilimescu;
Title: "A Banat fairy tale with undead in a double
reading key"
Liliana DANCIU
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 53-66
Abstract: In this article, I have in mind a
fairy tale from Banat with a "feminine" undead, "The Empress's
Girl Strag", which I will analyze from the perspective of a double key interpretation:
esoteric, fantastic and socio-anthropological, feminist. In this extremely
short fairy tale, told by the storyteller in a laconic and alert formula, it
tells the story of an emperor's daughter who dies and turns into an undead. The
absence of information regarding the cause of the transformation implies the
obligation of an esoteric knowledge from the reader / listener to whom the
narrator addresses. On the other hand, this aspect can suggest its lack of
interest in this part and directing the listener's attention to the proposed
magical solution and the implicit "moral".
Keywords: ethnology; folklore;
superstitions; woman; supernatural beings;
Title: "Menuț Maximinian : critic and poet"
Mihai POSADA
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 67-71
Abstract: As a poet and literary critic,
Maximinian Menuț combines in the volumes Crucea nopții [Cross of the
Night] (poems, 2018) and Puterea secretă a cărților [The Secret
Power of Books] (literary chronicles, 2020), the art of the word with the
love of ethnography, making vibrate both the nostalgic chord of memory and the
Malaysian and North American exotism transformed into poetry. In the volume of
literary chronicles, the same appetite of the ethnographer for the cultural
history of his nation sublimates, through the filter of the experience of the
journalist and the professional reader, in a book of homage to Romanian
culture.
Keywords: poems; culture; critical essay; art
of the written word;
Title: "The
Mystical Image of Becoming in The Poem «Nine Variations for Organ» by Nichita
Danilov"
Savu POPA
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 72-84
Abstract:
In Nichita Danilov's poem, there is a gap between
essence and appearance, generated by the writing of a profane scripture, in
which the reality is deciphered in two parts: the reality of surface and the reality
of depth. Those two parts consist primarily on the ability of creating, in both
dimensions mentioned, areas or dramatic situations by using a parabolic vision
of existence. Characters like Ferapont, Kiril, Lazăr,
Daniel, the Other Kiril or the Other Lazarus are involved, each of them, in the
writing process of the same Psalter. This kind of activity tends to integrate
them into an universe of a deep symbols, which give meaning and significance to
everyone's existence. The concrete reality of the fountain tends to be replaced
by the reality of depth, which is inside the fountain and becomes a space of
the inaccessible parts of the reality. Therefore, the characters have no choice
but to continue the act of writing in this psalter of nothingness that, nevertheless,
will engage them in a sisyphean effort, in which their own identities tend to
be denied.
Keyword: Ferapont; image of depth; Psalter; sisyphean;
effort;
Title: "The
unbrother, hero of katabasis"
Petru Adrian DANCIU
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 85-96
Abstract: The article presents a revised vision on the origin of the Romanian
cosmogonic myth. Brother and Unbrother are the common builders of the earth in
a relationship not only of competition but also of initiation. We will propose
the idea of an initiation
rite whose staged structure turns into a myth. Its origin refers to a moderate,
Judeo-Gnostic dualism, which survived the persecutions of the first centuries
in the Balkan area, from where it was taken over by Bogomilism. His reflection
in fairy tales is clear, even if, until now, unexplored. As a result, this
construct willprofoundly influence the Romanian magical-popular belief.
Keywords:demonology; folklore; unbrother;
brother; magic; sorcery; esotericism;
Title: "Asimov's Laws -
methodological norms"
Mircea BĂDUȚ
Eon, 1 (1), 2020, 97-102
Abstract: The first concerns about the social problems of
living with robots arose with the term robot (1920), and in 1942 the writer
Isaac Asimov defined the famous 'robot laws', disseminated worldwide through
his renowned science-fiction proses. In the following lines we will try to
analyze the respective laws seen from the perspective of current and especially
future applicability in human society.
Keywords: literature; science-fiction; robots; autonomy;
responsibility; morality; ethics; laws; norms;