Böcker av Adrian Velicu

This book explores the Romanian Orthodox Church's arguments on national identity to legitimize its own place in a post-communist Romania. After clarifying and surveying the Church's claims on institutional and national identity, the book then also explores the secular ideas on the subject.

At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime. This title presents an exploration of the facts and implications of this tension, which reconstructs the intellectual world of the Revolution.