Volume 2, Issue 2, 2005

Ana-Maria PascalPages 154-171DOI: 10.5840/cultura20052212 ABSTRACT As its title is meant to suggest, this paper is a reply to Sir Tim Lankester’s article “International Aid: Experience, Prospects and the Moral Case”, published in the World Economics last year’. Therefore, T would like to begin by expressing my gratitude for the authot’s responsiveness to my interest and […]

Till KinzelPages 172-183DOI: 10.5840/cultura20052213 ABSTRACT Johann Georg Hamann, a contemporary of Kant and Herder, was an important German philosopher of the 18th century, whose significance, however, is not sufficiently recognized today. His cryptic and short writings full of allusions and deep scholarship do not make him an easily accessible writer. He was a sharp critic

Cristina GelanPages 184-194DOI: 10.5840/cultura20052214 ABSTRACT The present study is designed as a hermeneutical exercise, drawn from a psychoanalytical viewpoint, which aims at describing the impact that the delirium of a psychotic subject could have, in a moment of psycho-social crisis, on an entire nation; we are talking about Adolph Hitler and the phenomenon called Nazism.

Carmen CozmaPages 197-198DOI : 10.5840/cultura20052215 ABSTRACT To anyone who is daring to understand something about the supreme model coming from and enlightening the Romanian spiritual eternity, to anyone who is trying the will to “elevate him/herself until Mihai Eminescu” — speaking in terms of Eugen Coseriu -, the book by Tudor Ghideanu represents a veritable

Manuela MihociPages 199-201DOI: 10.5840/cultura20052216 ABSTRACT Einfiibrung in das Christentum. Vorlesungen iiber das Apostoliche Glanbens- bekenntnis, il cui autore & Joseph Ratzinger, era stampata nel 1968 a Miinchen. Attualmente, grazie alla volonta di Mihaita Blaj, il lettore romeno ha la possibilita di arricchirsi dal punto di vista culturale dalle riflessioni del teologo tedesco Joseph Ratzinger, una

Vladlen BABCINETCHI,Ludmila BEJENARU,Carmen COZMA,Carmen COZMAPages 203-205DOI: 10.5840/cultura20052217 ABSTRACT ‘Vladlen BABCINETCHI is a young artist, student at the Art University “G. Enescu”, Iasi. Gaining national awards, diplomas and UNICEF award he has three personal expositions and monumental workings: the sculpture of Ioan Petru Culianu (at the “Vasile Alecsandri High School”, Iasi, 2002), the Mihai Eminescu sculpture

Tim LankesterPages 131-153DOI: 10.5840/cultura20052211 ABSTRACT It is a commonplace that economic and social progress in developing countries since the Second World War has been faster than in any comparable period in history. There have been large improvements in incomes, in literacy, in health and in life expectancy. Hundreds of millions have been taken out of