Enlightenment and Revolution
The Making of Modern Greece
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
418 pages
978-0-674-72641-3 (ISBN)
Description
To comprehend how Greece precipitated such an outsized economic crisis in Europe, we must understand how it developed into a nation in the first place. Enlightenment and Revolution traces the ideologies that shaped a Greek-speaking religious community into a modern nation-state- one in which antiliberal forces have exacted a high price.
To comprehend how Greece precipitated such an outsized economic crisis in Europe, we must understand how it developed into a nation in the first place. Enlightenment and Revolution traces the ideologies that shaped a Greek-speaking religious community into a modern nation-state- one in which antiliberal forces have exacted a high price.
To comprehend how Greece precipitated such an outsized economic crisis in Europe, we must understand how it developed into a nation in the first place. Enlightenment and Revolution traces the ideologies that shaped a Greek-speaking religious community into a modern nation-state- one in which antiliberal forces have exacted a high price.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 map
1 map
ISBN-13
978-0-674-72641-3 (9780674726413)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Book
11/2013
Harvard University Press
€95.46
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Person
KitromilidesPaschalis M.: Paschalis M. Kitromilides is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens.
KitromilidesPaschalis M.: Paschalis M. Kitromilides is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens.
KitromilidesPaschalis M.: Paschalis M. Kitromilides is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction to the American Edition
- Prologue: The Political Meaning of the Enlightenment
- 1. The Long Road to Enlightenment
- 2. The Formation of Modern Greek Historical Consciousness
- 3. The Geography of Civilization: From Adulation to Revolution
- 4. Enlightened Absolutism as a Path to Change
- 5. Ancients and Moderns: Cultural Criticism and the Origins of Republicanism
- 6. The Revolution in France: The Glow and the Shadow
- 7. The Enlightenment's Political Alternative
- 8. The Enlightenment as Social Criticism
- 9. The Republican Synthesis: A Matrix for Nationalism
- 10. The Fate of the Enlightenment
- Epilogue: The Conditions of Liberal Politics
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
