Petre Andrei’s plea for a culture of liberty
By its mission, culture should be closely connected with the ideal of a free and creative assertion of the human being. But this request has not always been completely asserted and in the course of history there has been many a situation when people attempted and even succeded, temporarily, to subordinate culture to power agents, to transform it into an instrument used to manipulate and dominante man or to enslave man’s personality. Such a situation emerged in Europe during the interwar period, a period in which the creative personality of the Romanian philosopher and sociologist Petre Andrei manifested itself most completely.
Keywords: Petre Andrei, critical reason, culture, liberty, University, fascism, totalitarianism
1.[1] Petre Andrei, Sociologie generală, Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iaşi, 2010, p. 35
2.[1] Ibidem, p. 35.
3.[1] Ibidem, p.40.
4.[1] Petre Andrei, Sociologia revoluţiei, Polirom, Iaşi, 1998, p.202.
5.[1] Petre Andrei, Fascismul, Editura Neuron, Focşani, 1995, p. 6.
6.[1] Ibidem, pp. 24-25.
7.[1] Ibidem, p. 24.
8.[1] Ibidem, p. 30.
9.[1] Ibidem, p.35.
10.[1] Petre Andrei, Sociologie generală, ed. cit., p.35.
11.[1] Ibidem, p.36.
12.[1] Ibidem, p.38.
13.[1] Ibidem, p.40.
14.[1] Ibidem, p.41.
15.[1] Petre Andrei, Despre fericire, volum editat cu ocazia Anului Jubiliar Petre Andrei, Universitatea „Petre Andrei” din Iaşi, 2010, p. 95.
