CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES VIA. EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, VOLUME 22

Moral, Legal and Political Values in

Romanian Culture

edited by

Mihaela Czobor-Lupp

J. Stefan Lupp

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: INDIVIDUAL OR PERSON?

1. Romanian Paths to Modernity: Culture and Moral Identity

by Mihaela Czobor-Lupp

2. Reconstructing and Reinventing the Meaning of Moral Obligation in Romanian Culture

by J. Stefan Lupp

PART II: RIGHTS OR RESPONSIBILITIES?

3. The Ethics of Unanimity and the Still-Born Citizen: An Essay on the Romanian Transition

by Daniel Barbu

4. The Temptation of the West: the Romanian Constitutional Tradition

by Ioan Stanomir

5. Governmental Responsibility or Parliamentary Irresponsibility in the Romanian Constitutional Tradition

by Radu Carp

PART III: TRADITIONAL OR MODERN?

6. National Identity and Political Legitimacy in Modern Romania

by Ovidiu Caraiani

7. The Legitimacy of Political Authority in Transition: On the Normative Relevance of Consent to be Governed

by Camil Parvu

8. Totalitarian Discourse as Rejection of Modernity: The Iron Guard, a Case-Study

by Constantin Davidescu

9. Romanian Nationalism and Political Communication: The Greater Romania Party [Partidul Romania Mare], a Case-Study

by Petre Berteanu

10. Modernization during the Middle of the 19th Century in Romanian Principalities: Project and Realization

by Laurentiu Stefan

11. On the Consistency Between Different National Cultures and the Institution of the Free Market

by Paul Fudulu

PART IV: HISTORY OR UTOPIA?

12. Romania: From "the Land of Donkeys" to "the Economic Island Between the Danube, the Dniester, and the Tisza"

by Cristian Preda

13. Rural Communities in Romania at the End of the 19th Century: The Family and the Community in Muscel County, a case-study

by Laurentiu Vlad

14. The Construction of the Feminine Sexual Identity through the Hygiene Treatises: The Second Half of the 19th Century in Romania

by Ionela Baluta

15. Romania in the Television Era or the Prison of Fading Reality

by Monica Ibram