Lucian Blaga Research Articles

Corespondența ca spațiu de întâlnire: „Fondo Culturale italo-rumeno della Prof.ssa Rosa Del Conte”

1948 represents a turning point in the “intimate”, intellectual, academic biography of Rosa Del Conte. In fact, the sudden repatriation, determined by the complex political situation, marks the conclusion of her Romanian work experience. It was a sixyear footnote which was, first, an opportunity to open up to the Romanian cultural space. Upon returning to Italy, Rosa Del Conte became a spokesperson for the Romanian language and culture, first in Milan and later in Rome. Brilliant philologist and literary critic, passionate professor, Rosa Del Conte manages to maintain relations with the cultural elite that remained in Romania during the difficult years of communism, but also with Romanian intellectuals active in Europe. Starting from the archival material, especially from the correspondence, kept at the Fondo italo-rumeno della Prof.ssa Del Conte, I intend to propose a reconstruction of the Italian professor network of human and academic relations. To support the working hypothesis, I will propose two (synthetic) case studies from Rosa Del Conte’s correspondence: Emil Turdeanu and Lucian Blaga.

Lirica Blagiană – (Re)Lecturi Cantitative. Negația

Abstract This paper is aiming to analyze the occurence and some functional and pragmatic aspects of the types of negation in all Lucian Blaga’s volumes of poetry. By using a quantitative approach, we have proved the stylistic effect of negation in his poetry and the importance of the negation with positive connotations in his verse. Beginning with the verbal negation, this paper goes through all the other types of it acoording to Rodica Zafiu’s classification: the negation of constituent, the expletive negation, the pro-sentence and the restrictions with a negative form.

Toposul Emoțiilor – Un Itinerariu De La Război La Comunism

Abstract What the present paper advances is the creation of a living context through which the protagonist-creator, Axente Creangă, from Luntrea lui Caron / Caron’s Boat by Lucian Blaga, accumulates the depths of private life during the World War II, as well as during the early days of communism. The action takes place exclusively in the Transylvanian space, which we analyzed through a quantitative study aimed at the level of emotions in these two important historical periods and the placement of the work in an interdependent relationship with all the events that took place.

Poetica Nemărginirii în Poemele Luminii: Transcendență Și Interioritate

Abstract The aim of this work is to analyze and interpret Lucian Blaga’s volume called “Poems of light” (Poemele luminii). The conquest of the outer infinity and the transposition to the inner, existential universe represent the points of interest that are going to be explored. In Blaga’s works, it seems that the soul knows no limits, but it cannot conquer infinity if it does not give up its physical existence, its chemical matter. The study will therefore depict several stages in achieving infinity, from the spatial perspective, to the abstract, spiritual one, considering also the dualistic view that the poet has on the various manners of erasing limits. Giving up on “being” in order to reach “feeling” represents the main act of courage that the lyrical voice assumes with the help of the strongest emotion: love.

Reviewer Acknowledgements

Applied Economics and Finance (AEF) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether AEF publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 9, Number 4 Ali Darub Al-Hiyali, University of Anbar, IraqBabacar Seck, University of Bahrain, BahrainFahri ÖZSUNGUR, Adana Science and Technology University, TurkeyIan McFarlane, University of Reading, UKJames Forest, Finance School of Business SUNY New Paltz, USAMagdalena Radulescu, University of Pitesti, RomaniaOmer Allagabo Omer Mustafa, Sudan Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences., SudanRamona Orastean, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Nikki GibbsEditorial AssistantOn behalf of,The Editorial Board of Applied Economics and FinanceRedfame Publishing9450 SW Gemini Dr. #99416Beaverton, OR 97008, USAURL: http://aef.redfame.com

Reviewer Acknowledgements

Applied Economics and Finance (AEF) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether AEF publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 9, Number 3Albert Henry Ntarmah, Jiangsu University, GhanaBasanta K. Pradhan, University of Delhi Enclave, IndiaGetamesay Bekele Meshesha, Ethiopian Civil Service University, EthiopiaHedieh Shadmani, Fairfield University, USAMarco Muscettola, Independent Researcher-Credit Risk Manager, ItalyMurad Harasheh, University of Milan-Bicocca, ItalyOmer Allagabo Omer Mustafa, Sudan Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences., SudanRamona Orastean, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RomaniaShahram Fattahi, Razi University, IranY. Saidi, M’sila University, Algeria Nikki GibbsEditorial AssistantOn behalf of,The Editorial Board of Applied Economics and FinanceRedfame Publishing9450 SW Gemini Dr. #99416Beaverton, OR 97008, USAURL: http://aef.redfame.com

Ce n-a fost Blaga niciodată

The present study is a revisitation of Lucian Blaga’s work in all its compartments (from literary to philosophical), thoroughly deconstructing the labels attached to it by the different ideologies of three periods: the interwar, the communist, and the post-communist ones. Most of them abusive and/or erroneous, these labels transformed Blaga’s work into an artistic and theoretical corpus suffocated by ideological clichés. Using most diverse sources (from letters and memoirs to treatises of political sciences and biology), the author shows somehow apophatically what Blaga was not – concluding that, while traversing complicated eras of political extremism, he managed to remain immune to all their ideologies.

Reviewer Acknowledgements

Applied Economics and Finance (AEF) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether AEF publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 9, Number 1 Abdulaziz Abdulahman, Marmara University, USAAlbert Henry Ntarmah, Jiangsu University, GhanaAli Massoud, Sohag University, EgyptFahri ÖZSUNGUR, Adana Science and Technology University, TurkeyIulia Lupu, Victor Slavescu” Centre for Financial and Monetary Research, Romanian Academy, RomaniaLiao Zhu, Cornell University, USAMagdalena Radulescu, University of Pitesti, RomaniaMahmoud Mohammed Sabra, Al Azhar University-Gaza, PalestineOlena Sokolovska, St. Petersburg State University, RussiaOmer Allagabo Omer Mustafa, Sudan Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences., SudanPayal Chadha, University of Wales Prifysgol Cymru, KuwaitRajeev Rana, APB Govt. P.G. College, IndiaRamona Orastean, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RomaniaRomeo Victor Ionescu, Dunarea de Jos University, RomaniaShahram Fattahi, Razi University, IranSzabolcs Blazsek, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, GuatemalaY. Saidi, M’sila University, AlgeriaZi-Yi Guo, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., USA Nikki GibbsEditorial AssistantOn behalf of,The Editorial Board of Applied Economics and FinanceRedfame Publishing9450 SW Gemini Dr. #99416Beaverton, OR 97008, USAURL: http://aef.redfame.com

LUCIAN BLAGA: THE HUMAN BEING DESTINED FOR MYSTERY, CREATIVITY AND KNOWLEDGE

Lucian Blaga (May 9, 1895 – May 6, 1961) is a Romanian philosopher of knowledge, history and anthropology with a “metaphysical vision of the totality of existence” (as he explains in 1938, aged 43, in his work entitled The Sketch of a Philosophical Self-Presentation) was influenced since his youth by Kant, Schopenhauer, Bergson, in structuring his antireductionist and anti-positivist perspective in philosophy. The main concepts of his philosophical system are the mystery, the style, the culture, the metaphysical and creative being, the Great Anonymous, the unconscious and the abyssal categories. We are going to address here mainly the historicity of the human being and the concept of mystery. This philosophical investigation is guided by the metaphysical principle, the problem of mystery and the problem of style, correlated in specific manners with the concept of a creative human being destined for mystery and capable of knowledge, dynamic, as well historical as spiritual, becoming onto being. The study addresses briefly the similarities and differences of the philosophical categories employed by Lucian Blaga against the Kantian categories. Also, we approach the relation of Lucian Blaga’s philosophy to Rortian philosophy and to certain ideas expressed by Michael Polanyi. The thesis of this paper is the idea that human expression overlaps human existence (and historicity), with her manifestations of knowledge through creativity; fashioned by the “stylistic matrix”, generated by the “abyssal categories,” with “ontological functions” correlated to the structure of the unconscious human spirit. Although not a personalist, Lucian Blaga emphasizes to such an extent the ontological difference of spiritual and creative nature between the human beings and other beings, that the perspective described is close to the area of personalist studies.

The inner eye of knowledge: the metaphysical sadness in the lyrics of Lucian Blaga

In the works At the Courtyard of Yearning, In Praise of Sleep, At the Watershed, we see a manifestation of a Faustian passion of knowledge, built up in the shape of demonic instances, theorized by Goethe and essay-like exposed by Lucian Blaga. The existential anxiety which generates metaphysical sadness, reaches the boiling point, imprinting to the works In Praise of Sleep and At the Courtyard of Yearning powerful tragic accents. In critical works about Blaga it was often spoken about the cult of the deepness, a concept about which the poet himself said he has it, in a posthumous publication in which he has different opinions with the ones who critique him, finding his poems difficult or even abstract. The lirosophical vision of Blaga takes some concepts from Leibniz philosophy, exposed scarcely in The Trilogy of Knowledge. God is conceived by the Dutch philosopher as a supreme, absolute existence, not to be identified with Nature. The exegetics is almost unanimously in considering the work In Praise of Sleep as a turning point in Blaga’s lyrical creation. Several literary critics and historians present the poetry of Blaga as a synthesis of inspiration and reflection.

Lucian Blaga and the Spatial Morphogenesis. From National Context to World Literature

Lucian Blaga and the Spatial Morphogenesis. From National Context to World Literature

DEVELOPMENT WITH CHARACTERISTICS AND INNOVATION – CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE AT LBUS

The research is on how to manage language teaching and culture promotion effectively through building explicit characteristics and seeking for innovative development of the program for the purpose of mutual understanding and common prosperity, taking Confucius Institute of Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (LBUS) as an example. A brief introduction of the overall development of Chinese teaching program in the world and specifically in Romania will be conducted in the first part of the thesis. And then, characteristics of C.I. at LBUS in teaching and culture promotion will be discussed with detailed elaboration and progresses especially in the past five years. In the third part, some innovative ideas to accelerate the development of management will be proposed for more practical purpose. The conclusion provokes further research in managing language teaching and culture promotion overseas.

Finalitatea Simbolic-Mitică a Creaţiei De Sens În Configurarea Onto-Teofaniei Poetice Blagiene

Abstract In this paper, we seek to demonstrate how Lucian Blaga’s poetic universe is double layered, in the sense that one can distinguish between, on the one hand, a phenomenological plane, characterized by a pervasive sense of the inexorable passage of time and of human mortability and, on the other hand, a supramundane (noumenal) plane which, in a profane world, has become unattainable and therefore intensifies the individual’s sense of loneliness and estrangement from a sacred universe. We attempt to show how there two planes interfere, mainly through revelations of the divine (epiphanies). In our paper, we follow a poetic and stylistic approach, founded on Mircea Borcilă’s attempt to formulate a poetic typology aiming to highlight the intrinsec mechanisms of a poetic finality oriented towards the creation of meaning, therefore inscribing Blaga’s poetry on the coordinates of a symbolic-mythical pattern. The linguist’s theory draws on Blaga’s conception of the duality of metaphor (“plasticizantă” and “revelatorie”), the latter having a revelatory function and being subdivided by Borcilă according to a cultural finality into a “plastic” finality in creating poetic meaning, whose universe of reference will be modelled upon the phenomenological world, and a ”revelatory” finality, whose universe of reference will be modelled upon a noumenal, transmundane world.

Despre Funcţionalitatea Poetico-Stilistică A Structurii Adversative În Câteva Poeme Ale Lui Lucian Blaga

Abstract This paper starts from the theoretical support of some central figures in the field of study of Lucian Blaga’s works: Mircea Borcilă and Mircea Scarlat. The first outlook that this essay will focus on the linguist and poetician from Cluj, Mircea Borcilă, with his esteemed article from 1987 (Contribuţii la elaborarea unei tipologii a textelor poetice). The other perspective is that of Mircea Scarlat, from The History of Romanian Poetry (vol. III). In the articulation of Blaga’s poetics, the exegete finds important the adversative structure as strategies of establishing the poetic tension and polarization of the world newly created. Thus, the purpose of this essay is to emphasize / demonstrate the fact that the poetic finality of the creation of worlds motivates even the linguistic structures, and the poetic meaning is vertebrated by, but also beyond the linguistic “material”. These mechanisms of meaning articulation through and beyond language will be followed in the poems as “Flori de mac” (from the volume Paşii profetului), “Paradis în destrămare” (from the volume Laudă somnului) and “Isus și Magdalena” from the Lucian Blaga’s unpublished poems .

Ipostaze Ale Lui Ulise În Lirica Lui Blaga, Voronca Și Sorescu

Abstract This study is based on the analysis of the ancient Greek myth of Ulysses, which has been reproduced in various reinterpretations over time. However, the purpose of this paper is to highlight the myth of Ulysses in the vision of three important Romanian writers: Lucian Blaga, Ilarie Voronca and Marin Sorescu. To be more specific, the work will focus on the hypostases in which the protagonist of the Odyssey is outlined in the verses of these writers. We will notice during the research that, in the case of each writer mentioned above, Ulysses acquires personal nuances with an impressive note of originality.

Preface

The ModTech Professional Association, as main organizer together with “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi and Constanta Maritime University, organized the 9th online edition of the ModTech2021 International Conference, between 23 and 26 June 2021. Other prestigious institutions, from Romania and abroad, such as the Society of Powder Technology of Japan, Silesian University of Technology of Gliwice, Poland, “Alecu Russo” University of Balti, Republic of Moldova, Technical Sciences Academy of Romania, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava and The General Association of the Engineers in Romania (AGIR) were also co-organizers. The ModTech Professional Association currently has more than 400 members from Romania and abroad and 13 branches in Australia, Greece, Spain, Malaysia, India, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Iraq, Poland, Turkey, Serbia, and Republic of Moldova.List of Images, Conference Committees are available in this pdf.

Frământările Omului Creator În „Tinda Înfăptuirii”. Meşterul Manole La Lucian Blaga Și Valeriu Anania

Abstract For a vast period of the human history, the whole universe has been perceived as creation. In a created cosmos people create following the example of divinity and “any creation has a model: the way in which gods created the Universe” (Eliade, Sacrul şi profanul 25). Lucian Blaga illustrated this fact in one of his poems in his unique manner: “Through all eras/ what a clod in torment!/ Under all spheres/ Everything begets” (Through all eras, t. n.). Creation is the wonderful constant of existence through aeons. This paper will analyse how the creator’s condition is unfolded in two dramatic texts which belong to different literary periods of Romanian literature: Meşterul Manole by Lucian Blaga and Meşterul Manole by Valeriu Anania.

Jertfa Pentru Creaţie: Mitul Estetic La Lucian Blaga Și Henrik Ibsen (Studiu De Caz: Dramaturgia Românească Vs. Dramaturgia Scandinavă)

Abstract This paper tackles the myth of creation through sacrifice as depicted in Lucian Blaga’s theatrical piece “The master builder Manole” („Meșterul Manole”, 1927) and Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder” („Constructorul Solness”, 1892). The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to explore the ways in which this myth passes through different european cultures. The symbols which gravitates around these literary works become premises for a paradigmatic, psychoanalytic and anthropological analysis.

Poetica Divinităţii În Volumul Poemele Luminii

Abstract The purpose of this work is to analyze, both in terms of interpretation and occurrence, the religious elements of Lucian Blaga’s volume “Poems of Light” (“Poemele Luminii”), namely the links between the figures of divinity and the individual, the latter being seen in its inferior, ephemeral condition, which in fact prevents him from identifying with the deity in question, but which does not stop him from aspiring to the absolute.

Lucian Blaga, Dinspre „Alegoriile Naţionale” Spre World Literature

Abstract Whether we refer to Lucian Blaga’s inclusion in a hyper-canon, or we choose to focus on his relationship with European cultures or his incursions into the realm of philosophy, the contextualization of his work can only be achieved by going down a two-way street; can we refer to Blaga as a German author of Romanian expression, as he was considered to be by some of his contemporaries, or can we refer to him as Romanian Goethe, as he was named upon the release of his translation of Faust? These are just a few lines of thought the present study is based on.