Mircea Platon and the role of elites in structuring the national personality

Mircea Platon’s concerns for the problems of the genetic nation, of the traditional institutions and of their transformations and modernizations through the direct action of the national elites can be seen throughout his entire research activity, returning to the foreground of his investigations with a special attention in his books and articles of the last years. Being controversial against the current globalist tendencies to minimize and underestimate the national factors, the author follows the ways, modalities, principles and criteria for shaping the modern Romanian nation, revealing its living substrate, tradition and organic transformations through the action of national elites ideas and initiatives.