George Uscătescu

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George Uscătescu

George Uscătescu (5 May 1919 – 11 May 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aesthetician, essayist, poet and sociologist, honorary member abroad of the Romanian Academy since 10 September 1991.

Biography

George Uscătescu was born in Crețești, Târgu Cărbunești. He attended high school in Târgu-Jiu and took the baccalaureate exam in Craiova in 1937. He then studied at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy and the Faculty of Law at the University of Bucharest. In 1940, on the recommendation of Nicolae Iorga, he obtained a scholarship to study in Italy. There he brilliantly completed three doctorates: in philosophy, literature and law. Due to the circumstances caused by the serious conflagration in Europe at the time, he never returned to his country and settled permanently in Spain, which became his adopted homeland.

He became a university professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, holder of the chair of philosophy, which belonged to Ortega y Gasset and Eugenio D'Ors, he carried out an encyclopaedic activity, dealing with subjects of culture, aesthetics, philosophy, history, political science, etc. His works are mostly written in Spanish, but also in Italian, French, German and translated into English, Portuguese, Greek. He was honorary professor at the universities of Rome, Buenos Aires, Modena, Mexico City, Strasbourg, Florence, Genoa, Valencia, Venice, Trieste, Palermo, Bologna.

He founded the Circle of Studies "Destin" in Madrid, which printed the magazine Destin, which he directed for over 20 years (1951–1972) and which represented a real cultural hotbed of the Romanian exile, where Grigore Gafencu, Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, Stefan Lupașcu, Vintilă Horia, Bartolomeu Anania, Nicu Caranica and other Romanian cultural personalities collaborated. He has also taught university courses in Barcelona, Argentina and Italy. George Uscătescu was president of the Ibero-American Society of Philosophy, president of the "Giovanni Gentile" Society of Humanistic Studies in Rome and member of the Institute of European Studies "Antonio Rosmini" in Bolzano.

His work, which includes more than 80 books and hundreds of articles (many published in the Madrid newspaper ABC, where he was a regular contributor), consists of studies and essays on aesthetics, diplomacy, philosophy of culture and law.

After the Revolution of December 1989 he was among the first Romanians in exile to join the political and cultural emancipation movement that opened the new course of history in Romania.

George Uscătescu died in Madrid and was buried at the San Justo Cemetery.

Writings

In the literary field George Uscătescu made his debut at the age of 20 in the magazine Tinerețea in Bucharest and during his life he published 7 volumes of poetry in the collection "Destin": Tanatos (1970); Dărâmat Hion (1972); Melc Sideral (1974); Memoria Pădurii (1977); Millenarium (1980); Poems (1981); Autobiografie (1985); Timp și Destin (1993).

His other works paid homage to great Romanian artists: Brâncuși, Luceafărul, La un centenar (1989). Before 1989 his work was noticed, translated and published in Romania: Erasmus (1982); Brâncuși și arta século (1985); Ontologia cultura și processo umanismului (1987).

Thought

His work revolves around a wide range of themes concerning pure philosophy, philosophy of history and culture, aesthetics and political theory. All of this is integrated in a Philosophy of Ambiguity that Uscatescu considered essential for a current ontology of culture and to characterize, in its many forms, contemporary humanism. The common structure of the whole of his work corresponds to a formative predisposition, in a certain way understood in the manner of Vico, in the sense that philosophy is joined to philology and, to both, a juridical formation with all the dimension of its structural and logical rationality.

Publications

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  • El problema de Europa (1949)
  • Rumanía (1951)
  • De Maquiavelo a la razón de Estado (1951)
  • Europa ausente (1952)
  • Tiranía y negación de la Historia (1955)
  • Rebelión de las minorías (1955)
  • Juan Bautista Vico y el mundo histórico (1956)
  • Constantin Brancusi (1958)
  • Nuevos retratos contemporáneos (1959)
  • Escatología e Historia (1959)
  • Hombres y realidades de nuestro tiempo (1961)
  • Profetas de Europa (1961)
  • Utopía y plenitud histórica (1963)
  • El tiempo de Ulises (1963)
  • Séneca, nuestro contemporáneo (1965)
  • Aventura de la libertad (1966)
  • Fronteras del silencio (1967)
  • Teatro occidental contemporáneo (1968)
  • Proceso al humanismo (1968)
  • Némesis y libertad (1968)
  • Del Derecho romano al Derecho soviético (1968)
  • Erasmo (1969)
  • Maquiavelo y la pasión del poder (1969)
  • Conversaciones actuales (1971)
  • Aporías del estructuralismo (1971)
  • Supervivencia de la literatura y del arte (1972)
  • Mis ventanas abiertas (1972)
  • Breve teoría e historia de la cultura (1973)
  • La anarquía y las fuentes del poder (1973)
  • Saber y Universidad (1975)
  • Idea del arte (1975)
  • Estructuras de la imaginación (1976)
  • Ideas maestras de la cultura española (1977)
  • Filosofía (1978)
  • Tragedia y política (1980)
  • Introducción a la ontología de la cultura (1983)
  • Fragmentarium: mis nuevas ventanas abiertas (1983)
  • Agustín, Nietszsche, Kierkegaard. Nuevas lecturas de filosofía y filología (1983)
  • Poemas de la tierra perdida (1991)

Translated into English

References

  • Castán, José María (1995). "In Memoriam George Uscatescu," Verbo, No. 337/338, pp. 777–83.
  • Ciortea, Raluca (2014). Destinos intelectuales en España: Alexandru Busuioceanu, Vintilă Horia y George Uscătescu. Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura.
  • Eiroa San Francisco, Matilde (2011). "Una mirada desde España: mensajes y medios de comunicación de los refugiados de Europa del Este," Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, Vol. XVII, no. 2, pp. 479–97.
  • Merino, José Antonio (1985). Cultura y existencia humana: homenaje al Prof. Jorge Uscǎtescu. Madrid: Reus.
  • Mihut, Liliana (1999). "A Romanian View of Europe: George Uscatescu." In: Susanne Fendler and Ruth Wittlinger, eds. The Idea of Europe in Literature. New York: St. Martin's.
  • Mustaţă, Constantin (1998). De vorbă cu... George Uscătescu. Bucuresţi: Editura enciclopedică.

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