Iluminismul transilvan: ecouri europene si aspiratii intelectuale locale / Transylvanian Enlightenment: European Influences and Local Intellectual Ambitions

Abstract

The paper aims to query Transylvania's history in the 18th century, a new perspective that targets how European Enlightenment was received and capitalized by various social, confessional, communautarian and linguistic groups that lived in the region. It contextualizes, conceptualizes and suggests a re-definition of identity policies in Transylvania at the beginning of modernity, by reflecting on contradictions resulting through the association of enlightened and romantics ideas.