Victor Neumann

Iluminismul transilvan: ecouri europene si aspiratii intelectuale locale / Transylvanian Enlightenment: European Influences and Local Intellectual Ambitions

Jan. 1, 2013

Keywords:
iluminism
despotism luminat
comunitate
religie
romantism
elite intelectuale
mase
identitate
ethno-naţiune
regional
universal
Europa
Enlightenment
Europe
Habsburg enlightened despotism
regional particuliarities
confessional identities
DOI:

10.55201/RQNG6594

Abstract

The paper aims to query Transylvania's history in the 18th century, a new perspective that targets how European Enlightenment was received and capitalized by various social, confessional, communautarian and linguistic groups that lived in the region. It contextualizes, conceptualizes and suggests a re-definition of identity policies in Transylvania at the beginning of modernity, by reflecting on contradictions resulting through the association of enlightened and romantics ideas.