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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   NATIONAL SENSITIVITY IN ROMANIAN SOCIETY (EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES).

Authors:  SIMONA NICOARĂ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   The nation comes from a far away time, and its modern form has meant the continuation of an aspiration toward unity and collective solidarity, perennial co-ordinates of social life, fed by popular millenarianism and the new wave of political ideologies. In the eighteenth century, the new “entrepreneurs” of politics have sought a new supremely unifying principle, a new essential value, a more encompassing ideal, and the national framework has become the repository of the social pact, the natural link of legitimacy and collective solidarity. The national passion, the belief in a grand political unity has become a vocation of national ideologies, which have dressed it in the attire of mythology and of light-filled eschatology, to make it fascinating. It has accommodated the modern democratic passion, which has tended―at the end of the eighteenth century, in the Parisian revolutionary turmoil―towards the blurring of the differences within society, towards the melt down of opposite social and political conceptions, criticised as historical reflexes. After the Great Revolution, which occurred in 1789, the problem of the tension between the universalism of civil society and ethnic and national particularism have opened, a paradox which has profoundly marked the destiny of the past two centuries.  
         
     
         
         
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