Constantin Noica (1909-1987) studied at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, where he graduated with a thesis on The problem of the thing itself in Kant. After a specialization in France (1938-1939), completed his Ph.D. work outline for the story of how is it possible something new.

Philosophical counselor Romanian-German Institute in Berlin, edited together with Mircea Constantin Vulcanescu Floru and four college courses Nae Ionescu and yearbook philosophy Sources. Unlike Eliade or Cioran, Noica decide not to leave Romania with the advent of communism, and in 1949 the authorities imposed a fixed residence in Cimpulung-Muscel. Was a political prisoner from 1958 until 1964, where he was pardoned. He spent the last twelve years of his life in Paltinis, near Sibiu.