H.-R. Patapievici
Author of Flying Against the Arrow: An Intellectual in Ceausescu's Romania (Central European Library of Ideas)
About the Author
Works by H.-R. Patapievici
Flying Against the Arrow: An Intellectual in Ceausescu's Romania (Central European Library of Ideas) (1995) 17 copies
Mirecea Cantor 1 copy
Partea nevăzută decide totul 1 copy
Mărinimia Ta 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Patapievici, H.-R.
- Birthdate
- 1957-03-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Romania
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- Works
- 17
- Members
- 72
- Popularity
- #243,043
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 27
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- 3
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- 1
Patapievici claims that we haven't actually find a way to exit modernism and that "postmodernism" is simply the shape of modernism after a century of intense modernization - which is an understandable way to put it. The more than questionable part is when Patapievici claims that the only way to get rid of the modernist nihilism is
However, "The Recent Man" remains one of the few Romanian books of history of thinking (and not only) that are actually ambitious and relatively well-written, in spite of the parts that you may fully accept without question or reject just as easily (simply due to his ideology). Nevertheless, you might want to go through the bibliography - a lot of food for thought...… (more)