What Gabriel Liiceanu sees when he looks out the window

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Published on May 17, 2022

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Today's guest is Gabriel Liiceanu. You could say he's a philosopher who likes to test his limits. He was, before the Revolution, resistant through culture at a time when #resist didn't exist, because those who were going to invent the concept and popularize it in 2017 were still in the project stage at that time. He became one of the disciples of the philosopher Constantin Noica, after a founding meeting with him in 1967, and because he enjoyed the trips to the chalet in the resort near Sibiu where his master stayed so much, he also published a book, called Jurnalul de la Păltiniș. The book was a bestseller in the 1980s and is the first example in a long series of books with autobiographical touches, of personal literature, that Mr. Liiceanu wrote after 1989. Tired of translating from Plato and Heidegger, shortly after the revolution of December 1989, when the obsessive communist regime collapsed, Gabriel Liiceanu created the Humanitas Publishing House, taking over the Politică Publishing House. The publishing house has grown, become big and plump in these 32 years, and has published a lot of titles in this time to help us navigate the world we live in. As our guest is also a formidable essayist, being among the most important authors of personal literature in Romania in the last three decades, among the books published by Humanitas in these years are also a series of volumes by Mr. Liiceanu, including essays on difficult topics. One of the most recent is an epistolary dialogue with Mr. Liiceanu's friend, Andrei Pleșu, in which the discussion revolves around destiny. We will use it as a starting point, to see what the deal is with destiny, whether individual or collective, and the theories about it. We will talk to the philosopher and try to find out if philosophers really struggled to understand the world, but did not understand that they actually had to change it, as a guy named Marx used to say. Or maybe if understanding destiny and implicitly the world is a path to changing it for the better. The topic addressed in our dialogue today, of destiny and its possibility, will be discussed at length, between May 21-24, at the fifth edition of the Festival of Conferences about the World We Live In. The conferences will be a feast not only about destiny, but also about several other topics, more abstract or more concrete, as chosen. For example, if you are interested in the New Ideocracy or what it might mean, or if you find it useful to see what the New Putin looks like, this conference is the right place to be next weekend. Conference Festival about the World We Live In https://eventbook.ro/festival/festiva... Content supported by: / zaiafet ZaiaShop: https://www.zaiashop.ro Instagram: / zaiafet Facebook: / zaiafet Mail: [email protected] Equipment Used: Camera: http://bit.ly/2CRMfNB Objective 1: http://bit.ly/2XroIwM Objective 2: http://bit.ly/2KvvJqM

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