Contemporary Critical Approaches to the Romanian Political and Cultural Ideology of the XIXth Century - Adrian Marino, Al Treilea Discurs. Cultură, Ideologie Şi Politică în România/The Third Discourse. Culture, Ideology and Politics in Romania

AbstractThe Romanian socio-cultural space of the XIXth century witnessed the political influence of the revolutionary French Romanticism, echoing the ideal of national unity and state independence, which gained artistic expression due to the coexistence of the Enlightenment ideology and of the Western Romantic patterns meant to mediate the literary and cultural ideas movement between the West and the European South-East. Focused today as a valid synchronizing formula re-shaping the cultural politics, the ideology of the “the Forty-Eighters” is favourably re-read by Adrian Marino in his work, Al treilea discurs. Cultura, ideologie si politica in Romania/The Third Discourse. Culture, Ideology and Politics in Romania, the main point of interest of the present paper