Freedom and Censorship in Romania. The Beginnings

Following the decades of his activity of a literary historian, or rather a historian of literary ideas, Prof. Marino has turned, after the 1989 Revolution, to the history of political ideas and ideology, a subject of his concern long before, but which he was hindered to freely pursue by the communist regime. His new research bears the title Freedom and Censorship in Romania, the first volume of which discusses the beginnings of the tradition of liberal thinking in Romania in the 18th century. The present article puts forward the initial phases of this work, outlining the theoretical framework of political thinking and freedom in the historical background of 18th century Romanian culture. The article was first published in Romanian in the periodical Observatorul cultural (The Cultural Observer) 134 (17.09. – 23.09.2002).

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