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This article discusses Romania’s relationship with the communist past. It is structured around three themes: official forgetting and belated condemnation, the pervading discourse of NGOs which focuses on the victims of communism, and the resurgence of nostalgia in opinion polls, seen as an expression of the problems of living in a democracy. In this context, the author examines visible forms of cultural memory which have appeared in recent years (the 2000s), in particular the role played by the nostalgic gaze. We find thus different types of nostalgia: social, commercial and tourism. We can then question the role played by this nostalgic gaze in works by Romanian contemporary artists and filmmakers who produce memory art. As a specific form of cultural memory, memory art seeks to sketch out an image of the past which is more comprehensive. The article describes the different forms nostalgia has taken in Romania in recent years and juxtaposes this with the most important works of art, following three themes: the obsessional portrait of Ceaușescu, personal, even autobiographical memory, and the residues of communism as depicted inProjet 1990. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article examines the research methods of one of the most famous twentieth-century Russian philosophers, Aleksei Losev. At present, the work of this thinker is the subject of study at numerous universities in Russia, North America, and Europe. Nevertheless, questions about Losev's place in contemporary philosophy and his research methods remain unanswered. Thus, this article examines the most important philosophical tendencies that significantly influenced Losev's work and concludes that Losev is primarily and overall a dialectician and the author of a very specific and original philosophical doctrine whose methodological founding principles originate in dialectical logic, one that differs considerably from other theories that currently exist in contemporary philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]