Frameworks of Identitary Culture: Nationalism, Liberalism, Westernalization

Abstract

The current study brings into discussion some of the theories concerning the liberalization of culture, as they stem from critical writings belonging to the Romanian theoretician Virgil Nemoianu. Various Western researchers (Jacques Lacan, Paul Virillio, Alexis Nouss, Raimond Aron, Michel Leiris, André Gorz, Albert Olivier, Jean Paulhan, B. Latourşi Serres, Pierre Goldman, Jean Baudrillard) put forward the hypothesis of the existence of a culture determined by social, political and media factors. In this context we are trying to identify the changes literary texts effectuate in a dynamic and present-day culture, ready to transpose, both textually and gesturally, signs such as: irony, ex-centricity, even the indecent or the repugnant. From the perspective exploiting contrasts of various forms, history itself achieves a new significance, as the political and social domains become new areas of interest, similar to architecture and urbanistics. Art and literature are not relegated to a second position themselves, yet perceptions of art and literature are. These are the focus of our discussion of what shapes cultural identity. A plenitude of literary, social and political concepts have provided distinct answers to classical and current cultural debates, prompting us to run a study on current cultural morphology, a culture in which literature no longer preserves its esthetical foundation (traditional and canonical), becoming a mosaic of textual comments, a collection of identitary and affiliation discourses.