Virgil Nemoianu

Virgil Nemoianu
Nemoianu in 2005
Born	(1940-03-12) March 12, 1940 (age 85) Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Occupation	Essayist, literary critic, philosopher of culture
Notable works	The Taming of Romanticism Theory of the Secondary The Triumph of Imperfection Imperfection and Defeat

Virgil Nemoianu (Romanian pronunciation: [virˈd͡ʒil nemoˈjanu], born March 12, 1940) is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in "comparative literature" but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments. His thinking places him at the intersection of neo-Platonism and neo-Kantianism, which he turned into an instrument meant to qualify, channel, and tame the asperities, as well as what he regarded the impatient accelerations and even absurdities of modernity and post-modernity. He chose early on to write within the intellectual horizons outlined by Goethe and Leibniz and has continued to do so throughout his life.