Les ambiguïtés de la thèse de l'État naturel et du modèle organiciste à Junimea

Abstract

Following on from the previous article on the founding principles of the State in Eminescu's works, this article strives to show that the reference to nature, far from elucidating the question of the State in Junimea, in fact makes it more complicated. The notion of "nature" can take on different meanings and lead both to a rational, potentially universal, "natural right" and to a specific normativity, peculiar to a being/to a people and which differentiates it from others. Embedded in the naturalist model, the organism model allows the thinking out of both an authoritarian conservatism and an individualistic liberalism. It is therefore not certain that these two theses achieve a summary of Junimea's political ideology. However, the Junimists, just like the Forty-Eighters before them, knew very well how to exploit the diverging and complementary orientations of those themes in order to develop their national ideology.