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Spiritul împotriva politicii: despre intelectuali, Biserică şi integrare europeană

The paper provides the ideal-typical narrative of European integration manufactured by Romanian intellectuals and the official national Church (Greek-orthodox), that could be summarized as follows: in the realm of the spirit, Europe would have survived mainly in the East, shepherded by such intellectuals as the Romanian ones and by the spiritual legacy of the Orthodox Church; in political and economic terms, European Union is monitored according to secularist and relativist guidelines by the bureaucracy in Brussels. Whatever the latter, together with their Romanian counterparts, may have realized in the course of European enlargement is of little concern for the former. Both the Church and the mainstream intellectuals are engaged now in an operation that should have defined them long before the fall of state socialism: to boost intellectual non-conformity with respect to the political dominant discourse as a way of refusing the debate by taking it seriously. And they do it by means of the same narrative device that kept them silent under communism: they tell the story of the prevalence of culture and the spiritual over everything political.

Alternative title
The spiritual against the political: on intellectuals, the church, and European integration
ISSN
1582-4551
Extent
Seite(n): 9-24
Language
Rumänisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 11(1)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
europäische Integration
Intellektueller
Rumänien
orthodoxe Kirche
Staat-Kirche

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Barbu, Daniel
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2011

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-448716
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Barbu, Daniel

Time of origin

  • 2011

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