Weak Barbarism

About the Book

Barbarism: Contemporaneous Axiological Mutations is not meant as a thesis that provides a holistic approach on the concept of barbarism, a concept whose area of investigation may be deemed as vast as that of the concept of culture. By taking advantage of a hindsight outlook as to what concerns this topic, one could learn a great deal of details about the radical alteration of the current depiction of the notion of barbarism. Therefore, as an incipient undertaking into the overall argumentative process, which defines the character of the thesis, I shall try to illustrate the idea of an induced misunderstanding, at a global level, on the concept of barbarism, which has led to significant and acute hermeneutical malformations concerning its various aspects of manifestation, both socially and culturally and, consequently, in terms of barbarism’s own axiological structure in the range of human behavior.

About the Author

Dr. Radu Vasile Chialda obtained his PhD degree in 2011 in philosophy of culture at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University and was a former high school teacher and lecturer. He had his debut in the anthology of Lumen Association: Love, Light, Poetry in 2013. In 2006, he became coordinator and editor in chief of the sociocultural journal entitled “The Avrig from Us.” He collaborates with several cultural and literal journals, such as Culture: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, where he entered in editorial staff since 2008; the journal of literature and literary experiment Feedback; the social human sciences magazine Symposium, from Gheorghe Zane Institute of Economic and Social Researches, The Romanian Thought, publishing both literature (prose and poetry), literary critics and studies of the philosophy of culture. Also, since 2011 he has been cofounder of the nongovernmental Literature Zone organisation and coeditorial board adviser of the Zon@ cultural and literary journal. In 2007 he published his first volume of poems entitled The Juke Box with Dreams, reedited by Lumen Publishing House, Iasi, 2008, and with the help of AFCN–Culture Ministry Agency. In 2008 he edited, as coordinator, the anthology of poems To Mother, republished as a second edition in 2014, and also in 2008, he obtained a prize for the poem Https or With Angels on the camp at the International Contest of Poetry of the Romanians from Everywhere under the coordination of Starpress Journal. In 2009 he published together with Ramona Elena Bratu (Duna) his first volume of short prose About Angels . . . Gossiping! and in 2011 a second volume in the French language (La causerie . . . Sur les anges!) published by Xlibris Publishing House in UK, USA, and Canada, and in 2012, the Romanian version of the same title. In 2011 he was awarded with first place at the first Cezar Ivanescu Poetry Festival, published in several literary anthologies, and in 2012, he published the second poetry book entitled Imaginary Apocaliptions.