Le discours intellectuel en Roumanie. Ce qui n’a pas changé depuis 1989

Abstract

After 1989, Romanian intellectuals emerged from a sort of underground position and eventually arrived to speak in the center of the agora. Nevertheless, the superior moral position they had used before 1990 in addressing their audience (based on their status of dissidents), has become paradigmatic and has been slowing down their efforts of constituting a “civil society” in Romania. We are referring to the echoes produced by the Jurnalul de la Păltinis written by Gabriel Liiceanu and first published in 1983, echoes gathered in a book edited by the same author, called Epistolar. We focus mainly on two letters exchanged between Alexandru Paleologu and Gabriel Liiceanu.