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Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania's most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century, little known in the English-speaking world. Blaga the poet is inextricably bound up with Blaga the philosopher. He pursued similar goals in poetry and philosophy: to uncover the meaning of existence and to account for man's place in the universe.
After the Editor's General Introduction, the extracts include central elements of Blaga’s metaphysics, general epistemology, philosophies of science, history, religion, language and especially metaphor, the experience of space and time, art, and finally culture which includes all of them, especially the presence in all of ‘style’ and distinctive ways of practising them. All these extracts are linked by his general epistemology, especially his distinction between two types of knowledge: ‘paradisiac’ or Type 1, which is that of everyday awareness and the current methods, concepts and presuppositions of the sciences of nature and humanity, plus mathematics and philosophy, and accumula...
After the Editor's General Introduction, the extracts include central elements of Blaga's metaphysics, general epistemology, philosophies of science, history, religion, language and especially metaphor, the experience of space and time, art, and finally culture which includes all of them, especially the presence in all of 'style' and distinctive ways of practising them. All these extracts are linked by his general epistemology, especially his distinction between two types of knowledge: 'paradisiac' or Type 1, which is that of everyday awareness and the current methods, concepts and presuppositions of the sciences of nature and humanity, plus mathematics and philosophy, and accumulates in 'pl...
Lucian Blaga was an early twentieth-century European philosopher whose work was suppressed at the height of his career by the creation of the Romanian Socialist Republic. Blaga's philosophical writings are rich and creative, spanning metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, and philosophy of religion. Mircea Eliade wrote that Blaga was the most gifted and critical original thinker in the history of Romanian philosophy. Because of historical circumstances, Blaga's philosophy has not become known outside of his own country, although within Romania it continues to be read and discussed. Were it to bec...
Zalmoxis is Lucian Blaga's first play and one of his most important literary works. It underlines much of his philosophy and also reflects his poetry.
The present volume includes the majority of Lucian Blaga's (1895-1961) poetry written before the Communist era. Before the communists banned the publishing of his works, he wrote and had published some 7 books of poetry, a dozen plays, and two dozen works on philosophy.Though nominated for the Nobel Prize, the communist Romanian government of the time sent emissaries to block the nomination. His work is now widely recognized and read in Romania and Europe today.
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Andrei Codrescu's translations of Lucian Blaga's best poetry introduce one of twentieth-century Europe's finest poets to the English-speaking world.