Table of Contents
PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: Ideology, Cultural Politics, Intellectuals Concepts and Terms Ideology, Legitimacy, Hegemony The Politics of Culture Intellectuals Methods Organization of the Book PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS 1 Antecedents: National Ideology and Cultural Politics in Presocialist Romania Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries How Romanian Identity Was Represented:The Question of Origins State Formation and Westernism Romanticism, Dacianism, and the "National Essence" Recapitulation 1900 to World War II Defining the Nation Between East and West The Social Efficacy of Debates on the Nation Intellectuals Defend the Nation and Construct Themselves Intellectuals and the Disciplines 2 Modeling Socialism and Socialist Cultural Politics The Dynamics of "Real Socialism" Maximization Principles and Bureaucratic Allocation Weak States and the Mode of Control Socialism and Cultural Production 3 The Suppression and Reassertion of National Values in Socialist Romania General Developments in Romanian Politics after 1947 From Minion to Maverick: The Romanian Party Draws Away from Soviet Domination Eliminating Reformism Regime Relations with Intellectuals The Reassertion of National Ideology in Romanian Culture and Politics Why National Ideology? PART TWO: CASES 4 The Means of Conflict: "Elitism," "Dogmatism," and Indigenizations of Marxism Foreign Imports, "Universality," and Representativeness "Elitism" and Cognizant Publics "Fascists," "Dogmatists," and "Proletcultists" Genealogical Appropriations: Eminescu as Proto-Marxist 5 Romanian Protochronism Clarifications The Birth of Protochronism Writers and Party in Socialist Romania Protochronism and Politics The Determination of Value Press Runs, Literary Canons, and Influence Within the Writers' Union Cultural Authority, "Elitism," and Genealogical Appropriations Competing Values and the Concentration of Culture in the Apparatus Protochronism and Shortage 6 Historiography in a Party Mode: Horea's Revolt and the Production of History Parameters of the Production of History in Socialist Romania The Debate over Horea's Revolt The Events Meanings of the Debate The Actors The "Revolution" and National Identity The "Uprising," Science, and Europe The Production of the Debate: Individual and Institutional Competition The Centralization of Historiography under Political Control Historiography in a Party Mode 7 The "School" of Philosopher Constantin Noica Who Was Constantin Noica? The Battle over Noica as a Contest for Representativeness The Definition of Philosophy and the Claims of Intellectuals Salvation through Culture and the Production of Urgency Representativeness and the Process of Cultural Reproduction From Cultural Creation to Political Action Unifying the Field of Opposition:Philosophy, Literary Criticism, and Ethics Noicism, Power, and the Question of Audience Conclusion National Ideology under Socialism Intellectuals, Opposition, and the Power of Discourse NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
