Journal Article

Alexandru Dragomir: Portrait of the Solitary Philosopher

Partenie, Catalin

2012

Overview

Between 1933 and 1939 Alexandru Dragomir studied philosophy and law at the University of Bucharest. In 1941 he was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship which allowed him to enroll as a doctoral student at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, under the supervision of Martin Heidegger. In 1943 he was drafted into the Romanian armed forces and left Freiburg without a degree. In Romania, under the communist regime, he could not pursue an academic career. He died in 2002 without publishing anything. His work has been published posthumously in five volumes by Humanitas Press. Two of the volumes have been published in French translation by Jean Vrin Press: Banalités métaphysiques [Metaphysical Banalities] (2008) and Cahiers du temps [The Time Notebooks] (2010). This paper offers an overview of Dragomir’s personality and work, with an emphasis on his The Time Notebooks–his lifelong research on the nature of time (English and German translations of this volume are forthcoming). In these notebooks he develops his own views on time and comments on the classical philosophical texts that deal with the subject.

• Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France
• ISBN: 2130593798, 9782130593799