"JUNIMEA" - THE INNER CIRCLES OF MODERNITY

The cliche "Junimea" translates in popular lectures, in press and literature, by the introduction of esthetical criteria in the establishment of cultural hierarchies. In addition, the society "Junimea", beyond the perception of "its standard image" is unveiled in study and in its structural-freemasonic formula. It is "a pressure group; an intermediary between society, politics and culture; a micro-universe closed within itself and a small autonomous world", which is distinguished by two major evolutionary stages. The doctrine of Junimea, based on the opposition between political liberalism of former revolutionaries of 1848, between the group from Iasi and the Latinist current of Transylvanian philologists. To this vitality we would also add the attachment to mental schemes, typical to freemasonic Cabala, attached to the illuminist idea of progress, through which "Junimea" remains an endo-antagonistic group.