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Papers by Valeriu Pănoiu

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal, Krakow , 2022

A pragma-dialectical inside view of a Romanian intellectual debate is meant to unveil strategic m... more A pragma-dialectical inside view of a Romanian intellectual debate is meant to unveil strategic maneuvering and fallacies, in a public sphere said to be dominated by ‘status groups’, ‘backstage maneuvers’ and ‘conspiracy’. A book written by a Romanian author sparked off an area of disagreement leading to ad hominem attacks and false analogies ranging from post-communist issues to political correctness.

Proceedings of The 4th World Conference on Social Sciences, Oxford, 2022

The concept of collective authority applies to the medieval and pre-modern ages, with writers as ... more The concept of collective authority applies to the medieval and pre-modern ages, with writers as spokesmen of the social movements and mentalities. First of all, the medieval and premodern man was the member of a group and never ceased to be a member of that group. The prefaces of the books, published under the signature of a typographer, a high priest or the king himself, genuine poetic arts in the past literary centuries, convey a contract between the author and the virtual/real reader, asking for Grice's cooperative principle. The relationship between the author and the reader goes beyond the reading contract, reaching a transfer of authority between the two parties. This study is based on a corpus of prefaces in the Romanian literature of the 16 th-18 th centuries in order to propose an authority model in critical thinking and literary theory. We claim that literary prefaces were used as authority strategies, becoming argumentative texts specific to a patriarchal literature. The author embodies the father figure, in Kojève's terms, eager to impose his authority upon his reader, as a voice of his master (ruler/king), who is, in turn, the representative of the Divine authority. Our purpose is to follow the evolution of cultural models and mentalities in late Romanian Middle-Ages and early modern times in order to investigate the extent to which authority shaped social relationships and status, religion and monarchy, writing and reading.

ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal, Krakow , 2022

A pragma-dialectical inside view of a Romanian intellectual debate is meant to unveil strategic m... more A pragma-dialectical inside view of a Romanian intellectual debate is meant to unveil strategic maneuvering and fallacies, in a public sphere said to be dominated by ‘status groups’, ‘backstage maneuvers’ and ‘conspiracy’. A book written by a Romanian author sparked off an area of disagreement leading to ad hominem attacks and false analogies ranging from post-communist issues to political correctness.

Proceedings of The 4th World Conference on Social Sciences, Oxford, 2022

The concept of collective authority applies to the medieval and pre-modern ages, with writers as ... more The concept of collective authority applies to the medieval and pre-modern ages, with writers as spokesmen of the social movements and mentalities. First of all, the medieval and premodern man was the member of a group and never ceased to be a member of that group. The prefaces of the books, published under the signature of a typographer, a high priest or the king himself, genuine poetic arts in the past literary centuries, convey a contract between the author and the virtual/real reader, asking for Grice's cooperative principle. The relationship between the author and the reader goes beyond the reading contract, reaching a transfer of authority between the two parties. This study is based on a corpus of prefaces in the Romanian literature of the 16 th-18 th centuries in order to propose an authority model in critical thinking and literary theory. We claim that literary prefaces were used as authority strategies, becoming argumentative texts specific to a patriarchal literature. The author embodies the father figure, in Kojève's terms, eager to impose his authority upon his reader, as a voice of his master (ruler/king), who is, in turn, the representative of the Divine authority. Our purpose is to follow the evolution of cultural models and mentalities in late Romanian Middle-Ages and early modern times in order to investigate the extent to which authority shaped social relationships and status, religion and monarchy, writing and reading.