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dc.contributor.authorNoica, Constantin
dc.contributor.editorGabor, Octavian
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-26 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23 14:09:07
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:39:18Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:39:18Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier1004664
dc.identifierOCN: 1055393182en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25431
dc.description.abstractConstantin Noica’s (1909–1987) Pray for Brother Alexander is a meditation on responsibility, freedom, and forgiveness. On the surface, the book describes events and people from Noica’s life during his time in a political communist prison in Romania. However, the volume is not a historical account only, but rather an honest introspection into how a human being may keep sanity when everything around him makes no sense. Unlike his famous Romanian contemporaries, scholar Mircea Eliade, dramatist Eugène Ionescu, and philosopher Emil Cioran, who lived abroad, Constantin Noica did not leave communist Romania. Considered an “anti-revolutionary” thinker, Noica was placed under house arrest in Câmpulung-Muscel between 1949 and 1958. In 1958, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released after 6 years, and Pray for Brother Alexander covers his experiences during this time. In his writings, Noica rekindles universal themes of philosophy, but he deals with them in a profoundly original manner, based on the culture in which he lived and for which he also suffered persecution. The volume will be of great of interest to scholars and students in history of philosophy and continental philosophy, but also to people interested in the recent history of Eastern Europe and the political persecution that took place after WWII in those countries.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHR Western philosophy from c 1800en_US
dc.subject.othermemoir
dc.subject.otherprison literature
dc.subject.otherRomania
dc.subject.otherWorld War II
dc.subject.othercommunism
dc.titlePray for Brother Alexander
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21983/P3.0198.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13
oapen.relation.isbn9781947447530
oapen.relation.isbn9781947447523
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages150
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NY
oapen.identifier.ocn1055393182


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