Gabriel Liiceanu (; b. May 23, 1942, Râmnicu-Vâlcea) is a Romanian philosopher.
He graduated from University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy in 1965, and from Faculty of Classical Languages in 1973. He earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Bucharest in 1976.
Between 1965 and 1975, Liiceanu was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, and between 1975 and 1989 at the Institute of Art History. He received a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation between 1982 and 1984.
He is the manager of Humanitas publishing house since 1990. He is the professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy since 1992.
Liiceanu is also a founding member of the Group for Social Dialogue (1990), President of the Romanian Publishers' Association (since 2000), and member of the scientific council of New Europe College. Between 1998 and 2001, he was a member of the Romanian National Television's Administrative Board.
He was greatly influenced by his mentor, Constantin Noica, especially during the time spent at P?ltini? (experience that he evokes in his famous "Jurnalul de la P?ltini?" - "The P?ltini? Diary"). Noica, a Romanian philosopher known abroad as well as in the country, used to take his most valuable students and followers to his small house at P?ltini?, where he would teach them what they afterwards called "not philosophy lessons, but spiritual experiences". Another Noica follower that was invited to P?ltini? was Andrei Ple?u (Liiceanu and Ple?u are still friends today). Liiceanu refers to that experience in his books as to the "P?ltini? School" and the term began to be widely accepted and used in Romanian, as well as European philosophy.
Tragicul. O fenomenologie a limitei ?i dep??irii (The Tragic - A Phenomenology of limit and overtaking), 1975
Încercare în politropia omului ?i a culturii (Essay on the polytropy of man and culture), 1981
Jurnalul de la P?ltini?. Un model paideic în cultura umanist? (The Paltini? Diary: A Paideic Model in Humanist Culture), 1983
Le Journal de P?ltini?, La Decouverte, Paris, 1998
Paltini? Diary, CEU Press, Budapest and New York, 2000
Epistolar (Epistolary), 1987, coauthor and editor
Apel c?tre lichele (Appeal to knaves), 1992
Cearta cu filozofia. Eseuri (Quarrel with philosophy. Essays), 1992
Despre limit? (On limit), 1994
De la limite, Ed. Michalon, Paris, 1997
Itinerariile unei vie?i: EM. Cioran urmat de Apocalipsa dup? Cioran. Trei zile de convorbiri - 1990, 1995
Itineraires d'une vie: E.M. Cioran suivi de Les Continents de l'insomnie, Ed. Michalon, Paris, 1995
Apocalypsen enligt Cioran, Dualis Forlags, Ludvika, Suedia, 1997
Declara?ie de iubire (Love declaration), 2001
U?a interzis? (The Forbidden door), 2002
Om ?i simbol. Interpret?ri ale simbolului în teoria artei ?i filozofia culturii (Man and Symbol. Interpretations of the symbol in art theory and culture philosophy), 2005
Despre minciun? (On lie), 2006
Despre ur? (On hate), 2007
Translations
from Greek and German:
Plato, Aristotelic commentators, German philosophers (Heidegger, Schelling)
Movies
Exerci?iu de admira?ie (Exercise of Admiration), 1991, with Constantin Chelba (coauthor)
interview with Eugène Ionesco, 1992
Apocalipsa dup? Cioran (Apocalypse according to Cioran), 1995, with Sorin Ilie?iu (coauthor)
Audiobooks
U?a interzis? (The Forbidden Door), 2003
Noica, 2003, with Andrei Ple?u (coauthor)
Apel c?tre lichele (Appeal to knaves), 2006
Declara?ie de iubire (Love declaration), 2006
Sebastian, mon frère. Scrisoare c?tre un frate mai mare (Sebastian, mon frère. Letter to an elder brother), 2006
Strategii ale seduc?iei. De la Romeo ?i Julieta la s?rutul cioranian (Strategies of seduction. From Romeo and Juliet to Cioranian kiss), 2006