Memory, Humanity,and Meaning - Essays in honor of Andrei Plesu's Sixtieth Anniversary

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On the 23rd of August 2008, Professor Andrei Pleşu 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 Pleşu joined together to offer a critical appreciation of his understanding of culture in today’s 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.

INTRODUCTION

“…Andrei Pleşu, dieser Spezialist für Zwischentöne und Zwischenwesen, dieser Möglichkeitsmensch mit ausgeprägtem Wirklichkeitssinn…”

Wolf LEPENIES
“Andrei Pleşu: a vast character, with multiple resources, endowed with a velvet aloofness and amiably outclassing all the rest, effortlessly achieving high performance and bril liance in everything he happens to do, modulating within any human register (devastating in derision and adorable in banter), capable of adapting to any setting, distant and engaged, drawn to monastic rigors and voluptuously melting in the vanities of the world…”
Gabriel LIICEANU

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Bibliography of Andrei Plesu

THE PUBLIC SQUARE

Mihail Neamtu, The Seasons of Life and the Practice of Wisdom

Vladimir 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 Kabbalah

Gábor Klaniczay, Angels and Devils

Jad Hatem, « Je suis qui j’aime » en mystique. Majnûn Laylâ, Hallâj et la dialectique de la sentence d’identification

Natale Spineto, L’histoire des religions en Italie. Modèles et méthodes
MAPPING THE SACRED: IDEAS, BODIES, LANGUAGE

Zoe Petre, Revenants et sauveurs. Le Ménexène de Platon et le théâtre attique

Anca Vasiliu, Les trois amours platoniciens ou la philosophie à hauteur d’homme

Marius Lazurca, Corps commun. Ascèse et politique dans le stoïcisme impérial
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 “Pagan” Saint in the Fourth Century
PHILOSOPHICAL ENCOUNTERS

Vlad Alexandrescu, Définition de la pensée et vie universelle chez le Prince Démètre Cantemir

Diana Stanciu, Shibboleth: Liberty of Conscience and Toleration in Seventeenth-Century England

Ana-Stanca Tabarasi, „…Zuchtmeister des unmittelbaren, gedankenlosen Lebens“. Ironie, Humor und ihr Verhältnis zum Religiösen in Kierkegaards entweder-oder

Leo Stan, From imitatio Christi to imitatio angeli, and Back. Reading Kierkegaard with Andrei Plesu

Ioan Pânzaru, Un mythe compatibiliste
MIRRORING FAITH AND REASON

Russell R. Reno, The Virtue of Docility

Virgil Ciomos, Religion, intervalle, philosophie analytique

Stefan Vianu, L’à-Dieu et le sens de l’être

Rajesh Sampath, Reading Heidegger on Time and History

Cristian Ciocan, Le phénomène de la vie entre la réflexion philosophique et l’expérience religieuse
HISTORY OF AESTHETIC FORMS

Dragos Mîrsanu, The Aesthetic “Shadow” of Gothic Arianism: Archaeology, Architecture and Art in the Age of Heresies

Anca Oroveanu, Paint Matter and Trace. Reflections on Horia Bernea’s Art

Augustin Ioan „Retrofuturismul“. Concept pentru o arhitectura viitoare
HISTORY, LOCAL AND UNIVERSAL

István Rév, Ethics and the Limits of History Writing

Petre Gura, Des guerres idéologiques, des identités fragiles et de quelques autres dilemmes de la culture roumaine

Florin Turcanu, Un moment roumain à Paris — 1949

Bogdan Iancu, Dreptul public între tragedie si melodrama
Contributors to this volume