About Virgil Nemoianu

Virgil Nemoianu (1940 – 2025) was a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He was the William J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature and Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at Catholic University of America, where he taught from 1979 until his death. His chief fields of research interest and accomplishment were European Romanticism, the intellectual history of the 19th and 20th Centuries, and aesthetic theory. His books include The Taming of Romanticism: European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier, The Theory of the Secondary: Literature, Progress and Reaction, The Triumph of Imperfection: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe, and Postmodernism and Cultural Identities: Conflicts and Coexistence.