The longest-lived Romanian philosopher, Mihai Șora, will be present, in spirit, at the "Marin Sorescu" National Theatre, thanks to the volume recently published by Leonid Dragomir (chief editor of Argeș magazine).
"Mihai Sora. Omul dialogal" is a volume published by Ed. Cartex, 2023 (chief editor, Lucian Pricop) and will be launched on Wednesday, June 21, from 5:00 p.m., in the presence of the author, the editor and Marius Ghica, one of "young friends" of a philosopher and humanist spirit who intensively cultivated the virtues of dialogue in the city.
Presented by Nicolae Coande.
Public entry to the foyer is free.
Leonid Dragomir was born in 1967 in Pitesti. After graduating from the Agroindustrial High School in Curtea de Argeș (1985), where he had the Romanian language and literature teacher Al. Th. Ionescu, attended the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Iași (1986–1991) and the Faculty of Philosophy in Bucharest (1993–1997). He obtained his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on Nietzsche and Freud under the supervision of professor Ion Ianoși. Between 2000-2008 he held courses and seminars at the Faculty of Philosophy in Pitesti. He has published numerous articles mainly on philosophical topics in magazines such as: Argeș, Calende, Viața romănească, Vatra, Psihanaliza, Electr@, Cultura etc. He made his editorial debut in 2001 with a volume of aphorisms, Fragmente de adolescente târziat (Punct Publishing House, Bucharest). (The book was republished in 2010 by Cartex Publishing House, Bucharest and in 2023 by Limes Publishing House, Cluj.) Thanks to this book, he had the chance to meet the philosopher Mihai Șora. Together they created a book of conversations, Despre tuate si ceva in plus, published by Paralela Publishing House 45 in Pitesti in two editions, the first in 2005, the second, substantially added, in 2006. In 2023 he published at the Cartex Publishing House, the volume of essays by Mihai Șora. The dialogic man.
Other published works:
Nietzsche and Freud. An essay on the idea of the unconscious (1st edition, Trei Publishing House, Bucharest, 2007, 2nd edition, Cartex Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010, with a Foreword by Ion Ianoși, 3rd edition, Cartex Publishing House, Bucharest, 2023).
Philosophical guide for personal use. Reviews, chronicles, essays. (Paralela Publishing House 45, Pitesti, 2007).
Mihai Sora. A philosophy of joy and hope (Cartea Românească Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009).
Existential Paradoxes (anthology) (Cartex Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010).
The joy of being Eastern. Conversations with Dan Ciachir (1st edition, Timpul Publishing House, Iași, 2011, 2nd edition, Renaștea Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2014).
From philosophy to psychoanalysis and back. Dialogues with Vasile Dem. Zamfirescu recorded by Leonid Dragomir (Trei Publishing House, Bucharest, 2014).
Al. Th. Ionescu – A man who forces you to think (Educational Romanian Book Publishing House, Pitesti, 2017).
Philosophy for teenagers. Freely chosen readings (Editura Pamfilius, Iași, 2023).
He is currently a veterinarian and editor-in-chief of the magazine Argeș from Pitești.
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"In my own words, here's how I could sum it all up: Mihai Șora was lived dialogically. From inner dialogue to generalized dialogue, from himself, through those close to him and through the polis, into the universe, this man both serene and turbulent, calm and (occasionally) tonans, at peace with History and engaged in its change (from the writing table and intimate circle in institutions and in the public square), candid and mystagogic, direct/translucent and multiple detached/coded, imagined, constructed and consumed, often without visible traces or lasting, not infrequently with unintended adverse effects, in the tense and foundational space between eu and tu.” -Sorin Antohi, Cultural Observer, March 8, 2023
