The Enlightenment as Social Criticism
Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Paschalis M. Kitromilides(Author)
Princeton University Press
Published on 6. April 1992
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-691-07383-5 (ISBN)
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In 18th-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favour of cultural change embroiled him in ideological conflicts and made him a target of persecution. One of the first intellectuals in south-eastern Europe to voice the ideas of the Enlightenment in public and without qualification, he advocated the use of vernacular Greek in education and aspired to see the backward and intellectually conservative Balkan societies remodelled along European lines. In this study of a passionate reformer, the author retraces Moisiodax's career and contrasts the Greek Enlightenment with the Western Enlightenment as a whole.
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"This study of one of the first Enlightenment intellectuals in the European periphery is itself a wonderfully enlightening union of biography on the one hand and social and intellectual history on the other. Kitromilides writes brilliantly about the actual experience of intellectual transmission: the high hopes with which the work begins, the fierce resistance it encounters, the human toll it exacts."-Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Trade binding
Weight
567 gr
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978-0-691-07383-5 (9780691073835)
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