On the 23rd of August 2008, Professor Andrei PleAu has marked his sixtieth birthday. In view of his distinguished service to the public welfare and his manifold contributions to academic life, the editors of this volume have invited a number of Romanian and international scholars to celebrate this event with a Festschrift. Colleagues, friends, and former students of Andrei PleAu joined together to offer a critical appreciation of his understanding of culture in todayas world. The participants in this volume explore the continuing debates around the place of philosophy, politics, aesthetics, ethics, and religion in shaping the identity of Western civilization. CONTENTS Acknowledgements Bibliography of Andrei Plesu THE PUBLIC SQUARE Mihail Neamtu, The Seasons of Life and the Practice of Wisdom free downloadVladimir Tismaneanu, Winners or Losers? Public Intellectuals and the Struggle for Moral Dignity THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Moshe Idel, On Jerusalem as a Feminine and Sexual Hypostasis: From Late Antiquity Sources to Medieval KabbalahGAibor Klaniczay, Angels and DevilsJad Hatem, Al Je suis qui jaaime Ar en mystique. MajnArn LaylAc, HallAcj et la dialectique de la sentence daidentification Natale Spineto, Lahistoire des religions en Italie. ModAules et mActhodes MAPPING THE SACRED: IDEAS, BODIES, LANGUAGE Zoe Petre, Revenants et sauveurs. Le MAcnexAune de Platon et le thAcActre attique Anca Vasiliu, Les trois amours platoniciens ou la philosophie An hauteur dahommeMarius Lazurca, Corps commun. AscAuse et politique dans le stoAmcisme impAcrial THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATIONS Mihail Neamtu, The Infinity of God and the Language of Perfection. A Reading of St. Gregory of Nyssa Cristian Gaspar, The Emperor Who Conversed with the Angels: The Making of a aPagana Saint in the Fourth Century PHILOSOPHICAL ENCOUNTERS Vlad Alexandrescu, DAcfinition de la pensAce et vie universelle chez le Prince DAcmAutre Cantemir Diana Stanciu, Shibboleth: Liberty of Conscience and Toleration in Seventeenth-Century EnglandAna-Stanca Tabarasi, aabZuchtmeister des unmittelbaren, gedankenlosen Lebensa. Ironie, Humor und ihr VerhAcltnis zum ReligiApsen in Kierkegaards entweder-oder Leo Stan, From imitatio Christi to imitatio angeli, and Back. Reading Kierkegaard with Andrei PlesuIoan PAcnzaru, Un mythe compatibiliste MIRRORING FAITH AND REASON Russell R. Reno, The Virtue of Docility Virgil Ciomos, Religion, intervalle, philosophie analytiqueStefan Vianu, LaAn-Dieu et le sens de laAotre Rajesh Sampath, Reading Heidegger on Time and History Cristian Ciocan, Le phAcnomAune de la vie entre la rAcflexion philosophique et laexpAcrience religieuse HISTORY OF AESTHETIC FORMS Dragos MArrsanu, The Aesthetic aShadowa of Gothic Arianism: Archaeology, Architecture and Art in the Age of HeresiesAnca Oroveanu, Paint Matter and Trace. Reflections on Horia Berneaas ArtAugustin Ioan aRetrofuturismula. Concept pentru o arhitectura viitoare HISTORY, LOCAL AND UNIVERSAL IstvAin RAcv, Ethics and the Limits of History Writing Petre Gura, Des guerres idAcologiques, des identitAcs fragiles et de quelques autres dilemmes de la culture roumaine Florin Turcanu, Un moment roumain An Paris a 1949Bogdan Iancu, Dreptul public Arntre tragedie si melodramaEssays in honor of Andrei Plesua#39;s Sixtieth Anniversary Neamtu, Mihail, Tataru- Cazaban, Bogdan ... Je me trouvais, dAcbut 1999, An Paris, avec une bourse du new europe College de Bucarest, en train da#39;accumuler An la BibliothAuque nationale etanbsp;...
Title | : | Memory, Humanity, and Meaning |
Author | : | Neamtu, Mihail, Tataru-Cazaban, Bogdan |
Publisher | : | Zeta Books - 2009-01-01 |
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