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Gabriel Liiceanu

Gabriel Liiceanu was born in Râmnicu-Valcea, on 23 May 1942. He graduated from of the Faculty of Philosophy within the University of Bucharest, which he attended between 1960 and 1965. A few years later, he also became Bachelor of Classical Languages, title awarded by the Faculty of Classical Languages in Bucharest, which he attended between 1968 and 1973. Liiceanu was also awarded his doctor’s degree in Philosophy by the University of Bucharest, in 1976.

Gabriel Liiceanu
He worked as a researcher within The Institute of Philosophy (1965-1975) and within The Institute of Art History (1975-1989). Liiceanu was as well the holder of a fellowship granted by the Humboldt Foundation between 1982 and 1984. At present, he is the manager of Humanitas Publishing House, position which he has been holding since 1990. Liiceanu has also been a Philosophy professor at the University of Bucharest since 1992.

Books

The Tragic. A Phenomenology of Limit and Overtaking, Univers Publishing House, Bucharest, 1975; republished by Humanitas Publishing House in 1994
A Trial within the Politropy of Men and Culture, Cartea Româneasca Publishing House, Bucharest, 1981
The Păltiniş Diary. A Paideic Model in Humanist Culture, Cartea Româneasca Publishing House, Bucharest, 1983; republished by Humanitas Publishing House in 1991 and 1996
Le Journal de Păltiniş, La Decouverte, Paris, 1998
Păltiniş Diary, CEU Press, Budapest and New York, 2000
Epistolary (co-author and editor), Cartea Româneasca, Bucharest, 1987; republished by Humanitas Publishing House, 1996
Appeal to Knaves, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 1992, republished in 1996
The Quarrel with Philosophy, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 1992
On Limit, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest, 1994, republished in 1997
De la limite, Ed. Michalon, Paris, 1997
The Itineraries of a Lifetime: E.M. Cioran pursued by the Apocalypse according to Cioran. Three days of discussions – 1990, Humanitas Publishing House, 1995, republished in 2001
Itineraires d'une vie: E.M. Cioran suivi de Les Continents de l'insomnie, Ed. Michalon, Paris, 1995
Apocalypsen enligt Cioran, Dualis Forlags, Ludvika, Suedia, 1997

Translations

Gabriel Liiceanu translated from Plato, the works of Aristotle's commentators and German philosophers such as Heidegger or Schelling.

Films

Exercise of Admiration (co-author Constantin Chelba), 1991
Interview with Eugène Ionesco, 1992
The Apocalypse according to Cioran (co-author Sorin Ilieşiu), 1995

Audio books

The Forbidden Door, Humanitas Multimedia, 2003
Noica> (co-author Andrei Pleşu), Humanitas Multimedia, 2003
Appeal to knaves, 2006
Love declaration, 2006

Awards and Titles

Romanian Writers' Union Prize, 1983, for Păltiniş Diary
Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1992
Great Prize of the Romanian Film-Makers Union, 1992, ex-aequo, for Exercise of Admiration

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