Author: Vasile Ernu

Vasile Ernu is born in the USSR in 1971. He has graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy (The University Al.I.Cuza of Iaşi, 1996) and has obtained a MA in Philosophy (The University Babeş-Bolyai of Cluj-Napoca, 1997). He was the founding editor of the magazine Philosophy&Stuff and was associate editor at the magazine Idea artă+societate. He was active within The Idea Foundation (Romania), the Tranzit centre and the Romanian publishing houses Idea and Polirom.  He has written opinion columns  at România Liberă, HotNews, Timpul, Adevărul, CriticAtac and has written for the magazines Noua Literatură, Suplimentul de Cultură şi Observator Cultural. He has published: ”Born in the USSR”, ”The last herertics of the Empire”, ”The Russian intellectuals today”, ”The Sectants - a small trilogy of marginals”, ”The Bessarabian intellectuals today”, ”The Bandits - a small trilogy of marginals”. He is one of the founders and coordinators of the left-wing project CriticAtac.