Constantin Noica

Bogdan Stefanescu (University of Bucharest)

Ed. by Cristina Sandru, The Literary Encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.4: Romanian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Maria Sabina Draga Alexandru (University of Bucharest), Calin Andrei Mihailescu (University of Western Ontario)

Dates

Born 25 Jul 1909
Died 4 Dec 1987
Activity 1934-1987

Places

Born in Romania
Active in Romania

Activities

Primary

Philosopher

Other

Essayist
Poet
Translator

Resources

Noica's Works

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Constantin Noica (1909-1987), friend of Emil Cioran and Mircea Eliade, was an idealist philosopher, the author of original treatises on ontology (drawing on Hegel’s triadic scheme), on logic and on cultural morphology (somewhat in the manner of Oswald Spengler and Leo Frobenius), and also of a series of essays on the Romanian “spirit” or “soul”, where he etymologically takes apart popular Romanian collocations to produce unexpected metaphysical intuitions that allegedly lie buried in them. His hagiographic portrait of the Romanian national character, his political persecution at the hands of the communist regime, his reclusiveness and his unmistakable paradoxical style all helped make him one of the most revered cultural personalities in communist Romania, in spite of recent…

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Citation: Stefanescu, Bogdan. "Constantin Noica". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 January 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13291, accessed 22 November 2024.]