Tentaţia lui homo europaeus: geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Romanian |
| Published: |
Iaşi
Polirom
2006
|
| Edition: | Ediţia a III-a revăzută |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Abstract |
| Item Description: | Carte distinsă cu premiul "A.D. Xenopol" al Academiei Române Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache unter dem Titel: The temptation of homo europaeus |
| Physical Description: | 309 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9734603477 9789734603473 |
Staff View
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV022516227 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20231124 | ||
| 007 | t | ||
| 008 | 070717s2006 a||| |||| 00||| rum d | ||
| 020 | |a 9734603477 |9 973-46-0347-7 | ||
| 020 | |a 9789734603473 |9 978-973-46-0347-3 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)238868624 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV022516227 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a rum | |
| 049 | |a DE-12 |a DE-Re13 | ||
| 084 | |a 7,41 |2 ssgn | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Neumann, Victor |d 1953- |e Verfasser |0 (DE-588)124780806 |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Tentaţia lui homo europaeus |b geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est |c Victor Neumann |
| 250 | |a Ediţia a III-a revăzută | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Iaşi |b Polirom |c 2006 | |
| 300 | |a 309 Seiten |b Illustrationen, Karten | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Carte distinsă cu premiul "A.D. Xenopol" al Academiei Române | ||
| 500 | |a Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache unter dem Titel: The temptation of homo europaeus | ||
| 546 | |a Text rumänisch | ||
| 648 | 7 | |a Geschichte 1500-1800 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf | |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Kultur |0 (DE-588)4125698-0 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 651 | 7 | |a Südosteuropa |0 (DE-588)4058449-5 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Ostmitteleuropa |0 (DE-588)4075753-5 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf | |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Ostmitteleuropa |0 (DE-588)4075753-5 |D g |
| 689 | 0 | 1 | |a Kultur |0 (DE-588)4125698-0 |D s |
| 689 | 0 | 2 | |a Geschichte 1500-1800 |A z |
| 689 | 0 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 689 | 1 | 0 | |a Südosteuropa |0 (DE-588)4058449-5 |D g |
| 689 | 1 | 1 | |a Kultur |0 (DE-588)4125698-0 |D s |
| 689 | 1 | 2 | |a Geschichte 1500-1800 |A z |
| 689 | 1 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung BSBMuenchen |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015723033&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m Digitalisierung BSB Muenchen |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015723033&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Abstract |
| 940 | 1 | |n oe | |
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-015723033 | ||
| 942 | 1 | 1 | |c 306.09 |e 22/bsb |f 0903 |g 496 |
| 942 | 1 | 1 | |c 306.09 |e 22/bsb |f 09024 |g 496 |
| 942 | 1 | 1 | |c 306.09 |e 22/bsb |f 09024 |g 437 |
| 942 | 1 | 1 | |c 306.09 |e 22/bsb |f 0903 |g 437 |
Record in the Search Index
| _version_ | 1804136620936396800 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | Summary
The Temptation of homo europaeus.
The Genesis of the Modern Ideas
in Central and South-Eastern Europe
The Temptation of homo europaeus is the result of decades of
research in libraries and archives in Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia
and Germany. The book is based on quite varied literature (covering
several humanistic sciences) and on sources yet unknown in Romanian
and world historiography. It brings to the fore analyses, working
hypotheses and original interpretations on the genesis of modern
culture, politics and mentalities in Central and South-Eastern Europe
from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
Most of the work goes beyond strict divisions that are common
place in historical surveys. That is to say, quite constantly it resorts
to what is as a rule called „the humanities . By this token, while the
author presents the religious reform and the crises of conscience, the
status and condition in a given region, or the libraries and the courtly
milieus in the area, he never fails to take into account and pay due
attention to the very life of those particular societies seen both as
receivers and as creators of spiritual values, or as wealthy producers.
The analysis is thus accompanied by a synthetic view, revealing the
overall image in each case. Not generalizing, as one might believe
at first sight, the study is rather an approach of the phenomenon
from within, by permanently comparing mental strata, creative of
novelty, in the space existing between Vienna and Constantinople. A
constant relating to the West is a second characteristic of this work.
This is not simply covering things, but revealing the merits of the
world that have, to the present day, remained quite unknown to the
Western man. It is, on the one hand, an applied research based on
immediate activity in the 17th and 18th century archives and libraries
(such as those in
Cluj,
Bucharest,
Sibiu, Târgu-Mureş, Alba-Iulia,
Arad,
Radna,
Timişoara,
Belgrade, Budapest); it is, on the other
hand, an attempt to grasp the essential behavioural factors of the
238
TENTAŢIA LUI
HOMO EUROPAEUS
people in regions, factors which were
-
on account of political games
-
left in the peripheral areas of the continent. The Europe of the end
of the 20th century will thus learn and acknowledge the real value
of such facts. All the more so as the temptation of the Central,
Eastern and South-Eastern individual to be European has a long
history. In the course of time, a dialogue on either known and un¬
known ways has been held with a view to attaining this status,
priorly a privilege of the „upper classes or of the intellectual milieus.
But the particular interference between the religions met here
-
Orthodoxism and Catholicism
-
enlarged the social sphere of com¬
munication between the East and the West, process that now appears
to have occurred on a larger scale than that inferred so far by
historians. Transylvanian, Ukrainian and
Ruthenian
Greek-Catho¬
licism are the most telling examples of that.
If you meditate on your country or nation, you cannot ignore your
neighbours, their languages and cultures, which are in a permanent
and reciprocal exchange of values, in a process of mutual influence.
Nothing has developed in isolation or has asserted itself without
being in convergence with the other during history. And, while Judaism
is the otherness of European Christianity, it is the minority ethnic
groups that are the otherness of each nation in part.
First-hand sources as well as selective research on the complex
literature have furnished new viewpoints as to the history of the early
modern age. The present book tries to discover unknown facets,
mainly from the 18th century, a century that has so deeply marked
our existence. Beyond narrating or enumerating top political and
cultural events, or common events which, in exchange, prevail in
individual options (at times in collective options, too), those elements
had grasped; that prefigures intellectual emancipation in Central
and South-Eastern Europe. This is as much as saying that the
interest has been centered on the rise and growth of modern homo
europaeus, an individual motivating his existence through his trans-
-continental cultural horizon. We have shown how his circulation
facilitates the dialogue between the East and the West.
The first chapter deals with the rise of modern ideas and the
concept of homo europaeus, in its humanistic-Renaissance meaning.
It also deals with the fundamental books of the world and the
Romanian contemporary historiography which conduct a comparative
evaluation on the metamorphoses undergone by the European world
between the 16th and the 18th centuries, e.g. the ones signed by
Fernand
Braudel, Pierre Chaunu,
Lucien
Lefebvre,
José
Ortega
y
Gasset,
Ernst Robert
Curtius,
Nicolae Iorga, P.P. Negulescu, David
Prodan,
Paul Zumthor,
Johan
Huizinga, Jakob Burckhardt,
Kosáry
Domokos,
Radovan
Samardžić,
and many others. Then a synthetic
ТНК
TEMPTATION OF
HOMO EUROPAEUS
239
image of the transition from the medieval to the modern age is
proposed, namely the echo of the Renaissance in East-Central Europe
and in the Balkan Peninsula is shown.
Without making too much use of chronology, chapters II and III
(„The Transition from Medieval to Modern Era. The Echoes of the
Renaissance in East-Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula and,
respectively, „Religious Reform and the Crisis of Conscience
:
from
Teofil
Corydaleus to Dimitrie Cantemir ) contain aspects that can
provide a correct
réévaluation
of the history of political ideas and
motivate the analyses and interpretations which the work includes,
namely those relating to the Enlightenment. A revolution of this
transition period in terms of the efforts made by human intelligence
has revealed a deep crisis, conscience of gradually mastering con¬
sciences, both in Western and Eastern Europe. Seen through the
dialogue, as well as through its tight unity, the history of downs of
the modern age on our continent is impregnated by common ele¬
ments. What differs are the means, no less the intensity, length, and
the time of the occurrence. Analyzing several models offered by
historical literature in the
Π 1
and 18th centuries (C. Cantacuzino,
G. Brancovici), by philosophical works (D. Cantemir, T. Corydaleus),
or religious literature (P.
Movila, Varlaam)
-
all from Central and
South-Eastern Europe
-,
we could prove that these common traits
find their origin in the „unity of civilizations and historical destiny,
and not in the unity of ethnic or linguistic family .
The next chapter (entitled „A Diaspora which Generates Con¬
vergences
?
The Irradiation of Judaism in Central and South-Eastern
Europe ) reconstitutes the Judaic Diaspora by tracing, according to
the theme of the work, the convergence this has generated in the
space mentioned above. The chapter is no more than a fragmentary
retrospective of the main communities that had furnished us reve¬
latory data about the contacts between Jews and Christians. To this
effect, it was my endeavor to deal mainly with the communities on
Romanian territory
(Timişoara, Alba-Iulia,
Jassy, Bucharest), on the
territory of former Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Dubrovnic, Sarajevo), and
on the Hungarian territory
(Buda).
Furthermore, a few routes are
suggested, those opened up by the Jews in these places in co-ope¬
ration with the Jews in Constantinople,
Adrianopolis, Thessalonika,
as well as with the Jews in Poland and Germany, or with more
coherently organized societies in Western Europe, in France and
Italy. The stress
fals
here rather on what Braudel called enriching
„the mutual quality of services done . We insist on revealing the
cultural contributions made by Rabbis, physicians and teachers
;
then
the extremely important role played by Jewish tradesmen is shown
-
making books circulate, helping information and new ideas flow,
240
TENTAŢIA LUI
HOMO EUROPAEUS
such as those born after the Renaissance epoch. The setting up of
printing houses, as well as the writings of scholars, poets, Kabbalists,
Torah exegetes and chronicles are mentioned in as much as they had
their contribution in shaping life principles. Religion, more exactly
Judaic mysticism and magic are given the attention required in
revealing forms of manifestation of faith, as the developments in the
Balkans and in Central Europe have had a deep impact on the world
of the Jewish population. Here, as elsewhere in the volume, I suggest,
by resorting to historical and extra-historical arguments, other ways
of decoding the senses of Judaism, too. In so doing, I take into account
the time and space involved, the influences (whether visible or not,
accepted or not), coming from outside of the respective communities
or, at times, the reaction of the Christian Church. Some descriptions
are based on archived documents, others exemplify the phenomenon
whith the help of the historical data extracted from hardly accessible
literature or from published document collections serving to
reevaluate
and understand more detachedly the facts
óf
civilization. This, to
evince how multiple convergences are, even in the case of Judaism
that desired to remain faithful to itself.
The chapters entitled „Homo europaeus and the Intellectual
Revolution of the Enlightenment , and „Cultural Channels in East-
-Central Europe. Books and Libraries in the Courtly Milieus in
Transylvania, The
Banat,
Hungary and Serbia trace the main coordinates
of the European evolution, the Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern
regions included. They deal, in fact, with the contact between micro-
-areas, for example those that are extremely suggestive for the
dialogue held between the East and the West. This time, numberless
details and first-hand sources helped me portray the „man of the
region as a character with multiple faces, with experiences, ways
and works prior to himself. A good deal of things are dug up, so to
say, such as
:
book and cultural facts given to oblivion, little investigated
collections, centres of Romanian, German, and Hungarian culture com¬
pletely ignored so far. The reception of Western creations, together
with the native Enlightenment intellectual efforts are illustrated on
quite a number of pages, for the reader to grow familiar with the
libraries, and with the people animating them. Thus, in parallel, the
examples of the illustrious milieus in
Sibiu, Alba-Iulia, Târgu-Mureş,
Aiud and
Blaj,
and the less known in
Timişoara,
Radna,
Arad, Oradea
are presented. A lot of strenuous attention went into deciphering the
notations and seals installed on some of the pages of works by Luther,
Erasmus, Olahus, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and on 18th century
dictionaries and encyclopaedias; at the same time, the corridors
linking the source to the receiver are also indicated. Thus the linking
bridges facilitating communication from Northern
Göttingen
to Eastern
THE TEMPTATION OF HOMO EUROPAEUS
241
Transylvania, from the Flemish to the Austrian, Hungarian, and
Romanian worlds, from the university and academic circles in Halle,
Berlin and Leipzig to those in
Buda,
Karlowitz,
Sibiu, Blaj,
Jassy
and Bucharest, and no less to the Russia of Peter the Great or the
Greek Mount
Athos
are presented in the book. I did not lose sight
of the modes of thought in the sense of long
durées
in history, as
mentioned above, which have made it possible for me to interpret the
modern dimensions of homo europaeus in his Eastern variant. This
has been done without overestimation, by outlining an image
synchronie
with that of the West, for it is the historian who should avoid the
temptation of facile synchronism, and, as well as he can, set himself
at equal distances from the extremes of various trends of ideas.
The present volume concludes with an investigation into the case
of Europe as a unique cultural body, a unitary formation, in whose
life both the East and the West have their shares, both the Catholic,
the Orthodox and the Protestant world, both Mediterranean and
Western virtual values. It may stand as an attempt to bring to the
fore the European man at the dawn of a new age, with his traditions,
language, attitudes, facts, with his soul and his mind, with his great
joys and his suffering. There are valuable studies that insist on
proving true the cultural unity of Europe.
It would be a legitimate question to ask
:
why make a fuss about
the parts, as long as this is a unity? The ideal of old Rome s invisible
authority still subsists. It is the variety of lifestyles nations embrace,
together with the variety of the regions they populate which emphasize
those factors that contribute to an understanding of the unique
European „ensemble .
Mitteleuropa
and especially the spaces sur¬
rounding it
-
the Slav-Romanian-Hungarian East, or the Greek-
-Mediterranean South
-
can still bring original evidence to the common
forum of civilization. In any case, this is by no means a place to be
ignored. A generous idea animated me all along the work, for example
that for the countries and nations of this „area Europe is not merely
a geographic phenomenon, but rather a cultural and political concept
which not only they will not, but cannot be isolated from.
Cuprins
Prefaţă
........................................................ 7
Capitolul
I
Tentaţia lui
homo europaeus.
Sens şi motivaţie
....................... 9
Capitolul
II
Tranziţia de la medieval la modern. Ecoul Renaşterii
în Europa Central-Esticâ şi în Peninsula Balcanică
................... 33
Capitolul III
Reforma religioasă şi criza de conştiinţă. De la
Teofil Corydaleu
la Dimitrie Cantemir
............................................ 67
Capitolul
IV
O
diaspora
generatoare de convergenţe
?
Iradierea iudaismului
în Europa Centrală şi
de Sud-Est
.................................. 93
Universal şi particular în istoria iudaismului
.................. 134
Capitolul
V
Homo
europaeus şi revoluţia intelectuală în Secolul Luminilor
......... 137
Personalităţi, opere şi tendinţe
.............................. 142
Capitolul
VI
„Coridoare culturale în Europa Est-Centrală, Cărţi şi biblioteci
în mediile aulice din Transilvania, Banat, Ungaria şi Serbia
.......... 161
în loc de concluzii
Homo
europaeus şi „duratele lungi ale istoriei
...................... 231
Summary
The Temptation of
homo
europaeus.
The Genesis of the
Modern
Ideas in
Central
and South-Eastern
Europe
...................... 237
Ilustraţii: oraşe, instituţii laice şi bisericeşti reprezentative
din Europa Centrală şi
de Sud-Est
în secolele al XVII4ea
-
al XlX-lea
(Colecţia
Thomas
Remus Mochnács)
.............................. 243
Bibliografie
................................................... 291
Indice selectiv de nume
......................................... 301
|
| adam_txt |
Summary
The Temptation of homo europaeus.
The Genesis of the Modern Ideas
in Central and South-Eastern Europe
The Temptation of homo europaeus is the result of decades of
research in libraries and archives in Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia
and Germany. The book is based on quite varied literature (covering
several humanistic sciences) and on sources yet unknown in Romanian
and world historiography. It brings to the fore analyses, working
hypotheses and original interpretations on the genesis of modern
culture, politics and mentalities in Central and South-Eastern Europe
from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
Most of the work goes beyond strict divisions that are common
place in historical surveys. That is to say, quite constantly it resorts
to what is as a rule called „the humanities". By this token, while the
author presents the religious reform and the crises of conscience, the
status and condition in a given region, or the libraries and the courtly
milieus in the area, he never fails to take into account and pay due
attention to the very life of those particular societies seen both as
receivers and as creators of spiritual values, or as wealthy producers.
The analysis is thus accompanied by a synthetic view, revealing the
overall image in each case. Not generalizing, as one might believe
at first sight, the study is rather an approach of the phenomenon
from within, by permanently comparing mental strata, creative of
novelty, in the space existing between Vienna and Constantinople. A
constant relating to the West is a second characteristic of this work.
This is not simply covering things, but revealing the merits of the
world that have, to the present day, remained quite unknown to the
Western man. It is, on the one hand, an applied research based on
immediate activity in the 17th and 18th century archives and libraries
(such as those in
Cluj,
Bucharest,
Sibiu, Târgu-Mureş, Alba-Iulia,
Arad,
Radna,
Timişoara,
Belgrade, Budapest); it is, on the other
hand, an attempt to grasp the essential behavioural factors of the
238
TENTAŢIA LUI
HOMO EUROPAEUS
people in regions, factors which were
-
on account of political games
-
left in the peripheral areas of the continent. The Europe of the end
of the 20th century will thus learn and acknowledge the real value
of such facts. All the more so as the temptation of the Central,
Eastern and South-Eastern individual to be European has a long
history. In the course of time, a dialogue on either known and un¬
known ways has been held with a view to attaining this status,
priorly a privilege of the „upper" classes or of the intellectual milieus.
But the particular interference between the religions met here
-
Orthodoxism and Catholicism
-
enlarged the social sphere of com¬
munication between the East and the West, process that now appears
to have occurred on a larger scale than that inferred so far by
historians. Transylvanian, Ukrainian and
Ruthenian
Greek-Catho¬
licism are the most telling examples of that.
If you meditate on your country or nation, you cannot ignore your
neighbours, their languages and cultures, which are in a permanent
and reciprocal exchange of values, in a process of mutual influence.
Nothing has developed in isolation or has asserted itself without
being in convergence with the other during history. And, while Judaism
is the otherness of European Christianity, it is the' minority ethnic
groups that are the otherness of each nation in part.
First-hand sources as well as selective research on the complex
literature have furnished new viewpoints as to the history of the early
modern age. The present book tries to discover unknown facets,
mainly from the 18th century, a century that has so deeply marked
our existence. Beyond narrating or enumerating top political and
cultural events, or common events which, in exchange, prevail in
individual options (at times in collective options, too), those elements
had grasped; that prefigures intellectual emancipation in Central
and South-Eastern Europe. This is as much as saying that the
interest has been centered on the rise and growth of modern homo
europaeus, an individual motivating his existence through his trans-
-continental cultural horizon. We have shown how his circulation
facilitates the dialogue between the East and the West.
The first chapter deals with the rise of modern ideas and the
concept of homo europaeus, in its humanistic-Renaissance meaning.
It also deals with the fundamental books of the world and the
Romanian contemporary historiography which conduct a comparative
evaluation on the metamorphoses undergone by the European world
between the 16th and the 18th centuries, e.g. the ones signed by
Fernand
Braudel, Pierre Chaunu,
Lucien
Lefebvre,
José
Ortega
y
Gasset,
Ernst Robert
Curtius,
Nicolae Iorga, P.P. Negulescu, David
Prodan,
Paul Zumthor,
Johan
Huizinga, Jakob Burckhardt,
Kosáry
Domokos,
Radovan
Samardžić,
and many others. Then a synthetic
ТНК
TEMPTATION OF
HOMO EUROPAEUS
239
image of the transition from the medieval to the modern age is
proposed, namely the echo of the Renaissance in East-Central Europe
and in the Balkan Peninsula is shown.
Without making too much use of chronology, chapters II and III
(„The Transition from Medieval to Modern Era. The Echoes of the
Renaissance in East-Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula" and,
respectively, „Religious Reform and the Crisis of Conscience
:
from
Teofil
Corydaleus to Dimitrie Cantemir") contain aspects that can
provide a correct
réévaluation
of the history of political ideas and
motivate the analyses and interpretations which the work includes,
namely those relating to the Enlightenment. A revolution of this
transition period in terms of the efforts made by human intelligence
has revealed a deep crisis, conscience of gradually mastering con¬
sciences, both in Western and Eastern Europe. Seen through the
dialogue, as well as through its tight unity, the history of downs of
the modern age on our continent is impregnated by common ele¬
ments. What differs are the means, no less the intensity, length, and
the time of the occurrence. Analyzing several models offered by
historical literature in the
Π"1
and 18th centuries (C. Cantacuzino,
G. Brancovici), by philosophical works (D. Cantemir, T. Corydaleus),
or religious literature (P.
Movila, Varlaam)
-
all from Central and
South-Eastern Europe
-,
we could prove that these common traits
find their origin in the „unity of civilizations and historical destiny,
and not in the unity of ethnic or linguistic family".
The next chapter (entitled „A Diaspora which Generates Con¬
vergences
?
The Irradiation of Judaism in Central and South-Eastern
Europe") reconstitutes the Judaic Diaspora by tracing, according to
the theme of the work, the convergence this has generated in the
space mentioned above. The chapter is no more than a fragmentary
retrospective of the main communities that had furnished us reve¬
latory data about the contacts between Jews and Christians. To this
effect, it was my endeavor to deal mainly with the communities on
Romanian territory
(Timişoara, Alba-Iulia,
Jassy, Bucharest), on the
territory of former Yugoslavia (Belgrade, Dubrovnic, Sarajevo), and
on the Hungarian territory
(Buda).
Furthermore, a few routes are
suggested, those opened up by the Jews in these places in co-ope¬
ration with the Jews in Constantinople,
Adrianopolis, Thessalonika,
as well as with the Jews in Poland and Germany, or with more
coherently organized societies in Western Europe, in France and
Italy. The stress
fals
here rather on what Braudel called enriching
„the mutual quality of services done". We insist on revealing the
cultural contributions made by Rabbis, physicians and teachers
;
then
the extremely important role played by Jewish tradesmen is shown
-
making books circulate, helping information and new ideas flow,
240
TENTAŢIA LUI
HOMO EUROPAEUS
such as those born after the Renaissance epoch. The setting up of
printing houses, as well as the writings of scholars, poets, Kabbalists,
Torah exegetes and chronicles are mentioned in as much as they had
their contribution in shaping life principles. Religion, more exactly
Judaic mysticism and magic are given the attention required in
revealing forms of manifestation of faith, as the developments in the
Balkans and in Central Europe have had a deep impact on the world
of the Jewish population. Here, as elsewhere in the volume, I suggest,
by resorting to historical and extra-historical arguments, other ways
of decoding the senses of Judaism, too. In so doing, I take into account
the time and space involved, the influences (whether visible or not,
accepted or not), coming from outside of the respective communities
or, at times, the reaction of the Christian Church. Some descriptions
are based on archived documents, others exemplify the phenomenon
whith the help of the historical data extracted from hardly accessible
literature or from published document collections serving to
reevaluate
and understand more detachedly the facts
óf
civilization. This, to
evince how multiple convergences are, even in the case of Judaism
that desired to remain faithful to itself.
The chapters entitled „Homo europaeus and the Intellectual
Revolution of the Enlightenment", and „Cultural Channels in East-
-Central Europe. Books and Libraries in the Courtly Milieus in
Transylvania, The
Banat,
Hungary and Serbia" trace the main coordinates
of the European evolution, the Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern
regions included. They deal, in fact, with the contact between micro-
-areas, for example those that are extremely suggestive for the
dialogue held between the East and the West. This time, numberless
details and first-hand sources helped me portray the „man" of the
region as a character with multiple faces, with experiences, ways
and works prior to himself. A good deal of things are dug up, so to
say, such as
:
book and cultural facts given to oblivion, little investigated
collections, centres of Romanian, German, and Hungarian culture com¬
pletely ignored so far. The reception of Western creations, together
with the native Enlightenment intellectual efforts are illustrated on
quite a number of pages, for the reader to grow familiar with the
libraries, and with the people animating them. Thus, in parallel, the
examples of the illustrious milieus in
Sibiu, Alba-Iulia, Târgu-Mureş,
Aiud and
Blaj,
and the less known in
Timişoara,
Radna,
Arad, Oradea
are presented. A lot of strenuous attention went into deciphering the
notations and seals installed on some of the pages of works by Luther,
Erasmus, Olahus, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, and on 18th century
dictionaries and encyclopaedias; at the same time, the corridors
linking the source to the receiver are also indicated. Thus the linking
bridges facilitating communication from Northern
Göttingen
to Eastern
THE TEMPTATION OF HOMO EUROPAEUS
241
Transylvania, from the Flemish to the Austrian, Hungarian, and
Romanian worlds, from the university and academic circles in Halle,
Berlin and Leipzig to those in
Buda,
Karlowitz,
Sibiu, Blaj,
Jassy
and Bucharest, and no less to the Russia of Peter the Great or the
Greek Mount
Athos
are presented in the book. I did not lose sight
of the modes of thought in the sense of long
durées
in history, as
mentioned above, which have made it possible for me to interpret the
modern dimensions of homo europaeus in his Eastern variant. This
has been done without overestimation, by outlining an image
synchronie
with that of the West, for it is the historian who should avoid the
temptation of facile synchronism, and, as well as he can, set himself
at equal distances from the extremes of various trends of ideas.
The present volume concludes with an investigation into the case
of Europe as a unique cultural body, a unitary formation, in whose
life both the East and the West have their shares, both the Catholic,
the Orthodox and the Protestant world, both Mediterranean and
Western virtual values. It may stand as an attempt to bring to the
fore the European man at the dawn of a new age, with his traditions,
language, attitudes, facts, with his soul and his mind, with his great
joys and his suffering. There are valuable studies that insist on
proving true the cultural unity of Europe.
It would be a legitimate question to ask
:
why make a fuss about
the parts, as long as this is a unity? The ideal of old Rome's invisible
authority still subsists. It is the variety of lifestyles nations embrace,
together with the variety of the regions they populate which emphasize
those factors that contribute to an understanding of the unique
European „ensemble".
Mitteleuropa
and especially the spaces sur¬
rounding it
-
the Slav-Romanian-Hungarian East, or the Greek-
-Mediterranean South
-
can still bring original evidence to the common
forum of civilization. In any case, this is by no means a place to be
ignored. A generous idea animated me all along the work, for example
that for the countries and nations of this „area" Europe is not merely
a geographic phenomenon, but rather a cultural and political concept
which not only they will not, but cannot be isolated from.
Cuprins
Prefaţă
. 7
Capitolul
I
Tentaţia lui
homo europaeus.
Sens şi motivaţie
. 9
Capitolul
II
Tranziţia de la medieval la modern. Ecoul Renaşterii
în Europa Central-Esticâ şi în Peninsula Balcanică
. 33
Capitolul III
Reforma religioasă şi criza de conştiinţă. De la
Teofil Corydaleu
la Dimitrie Cantemir
. 67
Capitolul
IV
O
diaspora
generatoare de convergenţe
?
Iradierea iudaismului
în Europa Centrală şi
de Sud-Est
. 93
Universal şi particular în istoria iudaismului
. 134
Capitolul
V
Homo
europaeus şi revoluţia intelectuală în Secolul Luminilor
. 137
Personalităţi, opere şi tendinţe
. 142
Capitolul
VI
„Coridoare culturale" în Europa Est-Centrală, Cărţi şi biblioteci
în mediile aulice din Transilvania, Banat, Ungaria şi Serbia
. 161
în loc de concluzii
Homo
europaeus şi „duratele lungi" ale istoriei
. 231
Summary
The Temptation of
homo
europaeus.
The Genesis of the
Modern
Ideas in
Central
and South-Eastern
Europe
. 237
Ilustraţii: oraşe, instituţii laice şi bisericeşti reprezentative
din Europa Centrală şi
de Sud-Est
în secolele al XVII4ea
-
al XlX-lea
(Colecţia
Thomas
Remus Mochnács)
. 243
Bibliografie
. 291
Indice selectiv de nume
. 301 |
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| any_adam_object_boolean | 1 |
| author | Neumann, Victor 1953- |
| author_GND | (DE-588)124780806 |
| author_facet | Neumann, Victor 1953- |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Neumann, Victor 1953- |
| author_variant | v n vn |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV022516227 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)238868624 (DE-599)BVBBV022516227 |
| edition | Ediţia a III-a revăzută |
| era | Geschichte 1500-1800 gnd |
| era_facet | Geschichte 1500-1800 |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>02373nam a2200553 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV022516227</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20231124 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">070717s2006 a||| |||| 00||| rum d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9734603477</subfield><subfield code="9">973-46-0347-7</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9789734603473</subfield><subfield code="9">978-973-46-0347-3</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)238868624</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV022516227</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">rum</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-Re13</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">7,41</subfield><subfield code="2">ssgn</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Neumann, Victor</subfield><subfield code="d">1953-</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)124780806</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Tentaţia lui homo europaeus</subfield><subfield code="b">geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est</subfield><subfield code="c">Victor Neumann</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Ediţia a III-a revăzută</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Iaşi</subfield><subfield code="b">Polirom</subfield><subfield code="c">2006</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">309 Seiten</subfield><subfield code="b">Illustrationen, Karten</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Carte distinsă cu premiul "A.D. Xenopol" al Academiei Române</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache unter dem Titel: The temptation of homo europaeus</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Text rumänisch</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="648" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Geschichte 1500-1800</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Kultur</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4125698-0</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Südosteuropa</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4058449-5</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Ostmitteleuropa</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4075753-5</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Ostmitteleuropa</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4075753-5</subfield><subfield code="D">g</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Kultur</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4125698-0</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="2"><subfield code="a">Geschichte 1500-1800</subfield><subfield code="A">z</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Südosteuropa</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4058449-5</subfield><subfield code="D">g</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Kultur</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4125698-0</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="1" ind2="2"><subfield code="a">Geschichte 1500-1800</subfield><subfield code="A">z</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung BSBMuenchen</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015723033&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">Digitalisierung BSB Muenchen</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015723033&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Abstract</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="940" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="n">oe</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-015723033</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="942" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="c">306.09</subfield><subfield code="e">22/bsb</subfield><subfield code="f">0903</subfield><subfield code="g">496</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="942" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="c">306.09</subfield><subfield code="e">22/bsb</subfield><subfield code="f">09024</subfield><subfield code="g">496</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="942" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="c">306.09</subfield><subfield code="e">22/bsb</subfield><subfield code="f">09024</subfield><subfield code="g">437</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="942" ind1="1" ind2="1"><subfield code="c">306.09</subfield><subfield code="e">22/bsb</subfield><subfield code="f">0903</subfield><subfield code="g">437</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| geographic | Südosteuropa (DE-588)4058449-5 gnd Ostmitteleuropa (DE-588)4075753-5 gnd |
| geographic_facet | Südosteuropa Ostmitteleuropa |
| id | DE-604.BV022516227 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| index_date | 2024-07-02T18:01:23Z |
| indexdate | 2024-07-09T20:59:18Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9734603477 9789734603473 |
| language | Romanian |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-015723033 |
| oclc_num | 238868624 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-12 DE-Re13 DE-BY-UBR |
| owner_facet | DE-12 DE-Re13 DE-BY-UBR |
| physical | 309 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| publishDate | 2006 |
| publishDateSearch | 2006 |
| publishDateSort | 2006 |
| publisher | Polirom |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Neumann, Victor 1953- Verfasser (DE-588)124780806 aut Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est Victor Neumann Ediţia a III-a revăzută Iaşi Polirom 2006 309 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Carte distinsă cu premiul "A.D. Xenopol" al Academiei Române Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache unter dem Titel: The temptation of homo europaeus Text rumänisch Geschichte 1500-1800 gnd rswk-swf Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd rswk-swf Südosteuropa (DE-588)4058449-5 gnd rswk-swf Ostmitteleuropa (DE-588)4075753-5 gnd rswk-swf Ostmitteleuropa (DE-588)4075753-5 g Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 s Geschichte 1500-1800 z DE-604 Südosteuropa (DE-588)4058449-5 g Digitalisierung BSBMuenchen application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015723033&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung BSB Muenchen application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015723033&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Abstract |
| spellingShingle | Neumann, Victor 1953- Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)4125698-0 (DE-588)4058449-5 (DE-588)4075753-5 |
| title | Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est |
| title_auth | Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est |
| title_exact_search | Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est |
| title_full | Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est Victor Neumann |
| title_fullStr | Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est Victor Neumann |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tentaţia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est Victor Neumann |
| title_short | Tentaţia lui homo europaeus |
| title_sort | tentatia lui homo europaeus geneza ideilor moderne in europa centrala si de sud est |
| title_sub | geneza ideilor moderne în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est |
| topic | Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | Kultur Südosteuropa Ostmitteleuropa |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015723033&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=015723033&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT neumannvictor tentatialuihomoeuropaeusgenezaideilormoderneineuropacentralasidesudest |