Poetul national Roman: The Romanian National Poet.

A poet-philosopher; an incomparable genius (not without failings, as all geniuses have).

If it is the project of American Pragmatism and of Dewey in particular to democratize genius, does this mean the end of great culture in the European and Western sense?

This idea of the political leader as a kind of engineer of the masses, or the entrepreneur/inventor that can find the device and instrument that will lead the masses forward into History.

This thread is also present in Robert Brandom's work to name only the most illustrious representative of the American Tradition of philosophizing: he claims that social engineering has a function to play in the normative processes by which a society gives itself norms and organizes itself rationally. I might be misreading here but I think that there is an element of this in Brandom's thought and it is highly problematic.

I leave you with a quote from Staline (my favorite citation of that Soviet leader: the little father of the Balkans):

Das Dichter ist der Ingenieur der Seele.

In that case Eminescu is certainly one of my favorite engineers!!!