Alex Cistelecan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4437473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Cistelecan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Cistelecan |
| SIGNATURE | CISTELECAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9878-5525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nature and scientific knowledge
Cinismul mesianic
The global polycrisis and the Romanian elections of 2024
Neoliberalism restaged
Teaching Kant in early socialist Romania
During the 1950s and ’60s, when Kant’s works were neither translated nor publicly accessible in socialist Romania, his philosophy reached students and readers through mediated instruction—public debates, university lectures, high school courses, and educational television programs. This paper explores how Kant was taught during the early decades of Romanian communism, particularly focusing on the renewed pedagogical and scholarly interest in the …
Annotated chronology of the Romanian political scene
Forging Europe Under Communist Eyes
This article aims to critically discuss the foreign policy of communist Romania, especially towards Western Europe and the socialist bloc. It does this firstly by reviewing Elena Dragomir’s recent ample analyses of communist Romania’s foreign policy. Its second section consists in a critical problematization of the allegedly “pragmatic” and “adaptative” nature of communist Romania’s dealings with its Western and Eastern partners, as established b…
From fertile hostility to stale benevolence
Humanist Redemption and Afterlife
This paper discusses the reception of Frankfurt School critical theory in Communist Romania. After some opening remarks concerning the relevance of this topic, Section 2 sketches the evolving political and historical contexts that circumscribed this philosophical reception. The content and configuration of the Romanian reception of critical theory is then discussed in a double sequence: first (Section 3), by surveying and analysing the main clust…
Encounters
The article discusses the historical background and transnational context of the dialogue between East-European communist philosophy and Western existentialism. It does so by first outlining the exchanges between Lukács, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. Subsequently three major forums of East–West philosophical dialogue are surveyed, that took place during the 1960s: the ‘Morals and Society’ colloquium, organiz…
Materialism dialectic și istoric în comunismul românesc (II)
The article (published in 2 parts) analyzes the expression and development of Marxist philosophy in communist Romania, as seen in the evolution of the official handbooks and courses of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Its first part looked at the original Marxian foundations (Marx and Engels’ views on metaphilosophy and their actual philosophical practice), the Soviet mediations (the institutional and conceptual reconfiguration…
Materialism dialectic și istoric în comunismul românesc (I)
The article (to be published in 2 parts) analyzes the expression and evolution of Marxist philosophy in communist Romania, as seen in the evolution of the official handbooks and courses of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Its first part looks at the original Marxian foundations (Marx and Engels’ views on metaphilosophy and their actual philosophical practice), the Soviet mediations (the institutional and conceptual reconfigurat…
Novel and Anti-Novel. Moretti Before Distant Reading
The paper discusses an intermediary phase in Franco Moretti’s intellectual journey, namely the years 1990s. This is a period of transition in Moretti’s thinking, in which he is working simultaneously on two fronts: on the one hand, he is refining evermore and bringing to completion his specific brand of close reading analysis developed in the previous decade – namely the combination of evolutionary theory, formal-rhetorical analysis, and eclectic…
The Dracula dilemma. Tourism, identity and the state in Romania
The Dracula dilemma. Tourism, identity and the state in Romania." Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 24(2), pp. 169–170
From Region to Culture, from Culture to Class
The paper articulates a sort of dialectic of the ruling culturalist discourse that is currently cast on the East European region. The opening moment analyses the culturalization of the Eastern region's identity and its impact on the continental map. The second stage will shift the perspective to the particular level of the Eastern region itself, where an account of the events surrounding the Romanian “coup d’e ́tat” from the summer of 2012 will t…
The Theological Turn of Contemporary Critical Theory
Closing the Circle of Political Theology In his famous commemorative piece on Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes highlighted the radical divergence between their politico-theological projects: “I ask after the political potentials in the theological metaphors, just as Schmitt asks after the theological potential of legal concepts.”1 Two completely opposed understandings of the same “political theology” thus stand out: one that proceeds from the political…
Encounters
The article discusses the historical background and transnational context of the dialogue between East-European communist philosophy and Western existentialism. It does so by first outlining the exchanges between Lukács, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. Subsequently three major forums of East–West philosophical dialogue are surveyed, that took place during the 1960s: the ‘Morals and Society’ colloquium, organiz…
Teaching Kant in early socialist Romania
During the 1950s and ’60s, when Kant’s works were neither translated nor publicly accessible in socialist Romania, his philosophy reached students and readers through mediated instruction—public debates, university lectures, high school courses, and educational television programs. This paper explores how Kant was taught during the early decades of Romanian communism, particularly focusing on the renewed pedagogical and scholarly interest in the …
Annotated chronology of the Romanian political scene
Materialism dialectic și istoric în comunismul românesc (II)
The article (published in 2 parts) analyzes the expression and development of Marxist philosophy in communist Romania, as seen in the evolution of the official handbooks and courses of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Its first part looked at the original Marxian foundations (Marx and Engels’ views on metaphilosophy and their actual philosophical practice), the Soviet mediations (the institutional and conceptual reconfiguration…
The Theological Turn of Contemporary Critical Theory
Closing the Circle of Political Theology In his famous commemorative piece on Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes highlighted the radical divergence between their politico-theological projects: “I ask after the political potentials in the theological metaphors, just as Schmitt asks after the theological potential of legal concepts.”1 Two completely opposed understandings of the same “political theology” thus stand out: one that proceeds from the political…
The Theological Turn of Contemporary Critical Theory
Closing the Circle of Political Theology In his famous commemorative piece on Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes highlighted the radical divergence between their politico-theological projects: “I ask after the political potentials in the theological metaphors, just as Schmitt asks after the theological potential of legal concepts.”1 Two completely opposed understandings of the same “political theology” thus stand out: one that proceeds from the political…
From Region to Culture, from Culture to Class
The paper articulates a sort of dialectic of the ruling culturalist discourse that is currently cast on the East European region. The opening moment analyses the culturalization of the Eastern region's identity and its impact on the continental map. The second stage will shift the perspective to the particular level of the Eastern region itself, where an account of the events surrounding the Romanian “coup d’e ́tat” from the summer of 2012 will t…
The Dracula dilemma. Tourism, identity and the state in Romania
The Dracula dilemma. Tourism, identity and the state in Romania." Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 24(2), pp. 169–170
Novel and Anti-Novel. Moretti Before Distant Reading
The paper discusses an intermediary phase in Franco Moretti’s intellectual journey, namely the years 1990s. This is a period of transition in Moretti’s thinking, in which he is working simultaneously on two fronts: on the one hand, he is refining evermore and bringing to completion his specific brand of close reading analysis developed in the previous decade – namely the combination of evolutionary theory, formal-rhetorical analysis, and eclectic…
Materialism dialectic și istoric în comunismul românesc (I)
The article (to be published in 2 parts) analyzes the expression and evolution of Marxist philosophy in communist Romania, as seen in the evolution of the official handbooks and courses of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Its first part looks at the original Marxian foundations (Marx and Engels’ views on metaphilosophy and their actual philosophical practice), the Soviet mediations (the institutional and conceptual reconfigurat…
Humanist Redemption and Afterlife
This paper discusses the reception of Frankfurt School critical theory in Communist Romania. After some opening remarks concerning the relevance of this topic, Section 2 sketches the evolving political and historical contexts that circumscribed this philosophical reception. The content and configuration of the Romanian reception of critical theory is then discussed in a double sequence: first (Section 3), by surveying and analysing the main clust…
Encounters
The article discusses the historical background and transnational context of the dialogue between East-European communist philosophy and Western existentialism. It does so by first outlining the exchanges between Lukács, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. Subsequently three major forums of East–West philosophical dialogue are surveyed, that took place during the 1960s: the ‘Morals and Society’ colloquium, organiz…
Materialism dialectic și istoric în comunismul românesc (II)
The article (published in 2 parts) analyzes the expression and development of Marxist philosophy in communist Romania, as seen in the evolution of the official handbooks and courses of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. Its first part looked at the original Marxian foundations (Marx and Engels’ views on metaphilosophy and their actual philosophical practice), the Soviet mediations (the institutional and conceptual reconfiguration…
From fertile hostility to stale benevolence
Forging Europe Under Communist Eyes
This article aims to critically discuss the foreign policy of communist Romania, especially towards Western Europe and the socialist bloc. It does this firstly by reviewing Elena Dragomir’s recent ample analyses of communist Romania’s foreign policy. Its second section consists in a critical problematization of the allegedly “pragmatic” and “adaptative” nature of communist Romania’s dealings with its Western and Eastern partners, as established b…
The global polycrisis and the Romanian elections of 2024
Neoliberalism restaged
Teaching Kant in early socialist Romania
During the 1950s and ’60s, when Kant’s works were neither translated nor publicly accessible in socialist Romania, his philosophy reached students and readers through mediated instruction—public debates, university lectures, high school courses, and educational television programs. This paper explores how Kant was taught during the early decades of Romanian communism, particularly focusing on the renewed pedagogical and scholarly interest in the …
Annotated chronology of the Romanian political scene
Nature and scientific knowledge
Cinismul mesianic
Philosophy (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Communism (5 works)