Andrei Pleșu
Andrei Gabriel Pleşu ( born August 23, 1948 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian philosopher, art historian and politician. He is one of the most important students Constantin Noicas. From 1997 to 1999, Andrei Pleşu non-party foreign ministers of Romania and intensified rapprochement with the West. He is member of several scientific academies. For his political and literary activities, he has received numerous awards.
Life and works
After receiving his doctorate in 1980 with a dissertation on " The feeling for nature in European culture ", he was first a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, where he lectured on the history of modern Romanian art, had in 1982 left the education but for political reasons. He was exiled to the village Tescani because he was in contact with the opposition poet Mircea Dinescu 1989. After the 1989 revolution and the overthrow of the government, he was Minister of Culture until 1991. He received in 1991 a reputation as a professor of philosophy of religion in Bucharest, had visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Berlin ( Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study 1991/1992 ).
1993 Pleşu has the important weekly magazine Dilema founded (now Dilema veche ).
Andrei Pleşu 1994 was co-founder of the New Europe College, which he modeled after the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and directs goal for today. Among the supporters of this scientific association has Lepenies - at the awarding of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2006 it Pleşu gave the eulogy.
His work The Silence of the Angel is considered as one of the foundations for today's angelology.
Books in German language
- Reflection and passion Deuticke, Vienna 1992
- Elites - East and West, de Gruyter, Berlin 2000
- Who stands in the sun casts shadows, ed tertium, Ostfildern before Stuttgart 2000
- Tolerance and the Intolerable, Schwabe, Basel 2004
- The Silence of the Angel, Berlin University Press, Berlin, 2007.