Virgil Nemoianu | |
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 Nemoianu in 2005 | |
| Born | March 12, 1940 Bucharest, Romania |
| Occupation | Essayist, literary critic, philosopher of culture |
| Notable works | The Taming of Romanticism, Theory of the Secondary, The Triumph of Imperfection, Imperfection and Defeat |
Virgil Nemoianu (Romanian pronunciation: [virˈd͡ʒil nemoˈjanu], born March 12, 1940) is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in "comparative literature" but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments. His thinking places him at the intersection of neo-Platonism and neo-Kantianism, which he turned into an instrument meant to qualify, channel, and tame the asperities, as well as what he regarded the impatient accelerations and even absurdities of modernity and post-modernity. He chose early on to write within the intellectual horizons outlined by Goethe and Leibniz and has continued to do so throughout his life.