Alexandru Dragomir

Fragments of a portrait

Andrei Pleşu

Translated by James C. BROWN

pp. 65-72

in: Paul Balogh, Cristian Ciocan (eds), The ocean of forgetting, Studia Phaenomenologica 4, 2004.

Abstract

The article conveys the portrait of a man for whom understanding was a matter of the highest spiritual intimacy, a man who continuously disregarded his possible engagement in the public life as a philosopher, finally a man whom we find, in the twilight of his life, concerned with the intricate tension between the “muteness” of philosophy (as being able “only” to double life by means of rational discourse) and religion. Alexandru Dragomir’s portrait is portrayed in comparison to another important Romanian philosopher, Constantin Noica. The comparison is not accidental, since they both come to represent two paradigmatic ways of making philosophy: traditional ontology (centered around Descartes – Kant – Hegel) vs. modern phenomenology (centered around Husserl – Heidegger)

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Heidegger Martin

Dragomir Alexandru