04528nam 2200697za 450 991081468750332120231205175940.09780674726413 (e-book)9780674725058 (hbk.)0-674-72766-50-674-72641-310.4159/harvard.9780674726413(CKB)2550000001140827(EBL)3301347(SSID)ssj0000941122(PQKBManifestationID)12402437(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000941122(PQKBWorkID)10963530(PQKB)11026175(MiAaPQ)EBC3301347(DE-B1597)209635(OCoLC)861200170(OCoLC)979755618(DE-B1597)9780674726413(Au-PeEL)EBL3301347(CaPaEBR)ebr10782452(EXLCZ)99255000000114082720130211d2013 uy 0engurcn|nnn|||||Enlightenment and revolution the making of modern Greece /Paschalis M. KitromilidesCambridge, Mass. Harvard Univ. P.20131 online resource (xvi, 452 p.) illAn earlier version of this work was originally published in Greek as Neoellinikos Diaphotismos. Oi politikes kai koinonikes idees0-674-72505-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction to the American edition -- Prologue : the political meaning of the Enlightenment -- The long road to Enlightenment -- The formation of modern Greek historical consciousness -- The geography of civilization : from adulation to revolution -- Enlightened absolutism as a path to change -- Ancients and moderns : cultural criticism and the origins of republicanism -- The revolution in France: the glow and the shadow -- The Enlightenment's political alternative -- The Enlightenment as social criticism -- The republican synthesis : a matrix for nationalism -- The fate of the enlightenment -- Epilogue : the conditions of liberal politics.Greece sits at the center of a geopolitical storm that threatens the stability of the European Union. To comprehend how this small country precipitated such an outsized crisis, it is necessary to understand how Greece developed into a nation in the first place. Enlightenment and Revolution identifies the ideological traditions that shaped a religious community of Greek-speaking people into a modern nation-state - albeit one in which antiliberal forces have exacted a high price. Paschalis Kitromilides takes in the vast sweep of the Greek Enlightenment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, assessing developments such as the translation of modern authors into Greek; the scientific revolution; the rediscovery of the civilization of classical Greece; and a powerful countermovement. He shows how Greek thinkers such as Voulgaris and Korais converged with currents of the European Enlightenment, and demonstrates how the Enlightenment's confrontation with Church-sanctioned ideologies shaped present-day Greece. When the nation-state emerged from a decade-long revolutionary struggle against the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, the dream of a free Greek polity was soon overshadowed by a romanticized nationalist and authoritarian vision. The failure to create a modern liberal state at that decisive moment is at the root of Greece's recent troubles.EnlightenmentGreecePolitical scienceGreecePhilosophyHistory18th centuryPolitical scienceGreecePhilosophyHistory19th centurySocial sciencesGreecePhilosophyHistory18th centurySocial sciencesGreecePhilosophyHistory19th centuryGreeceIntellectual life18th centuryGreeceIntellectual life19th centuryGreecePolitics and government18th centuryGreecePolitics and government19th centuryEnlightenmentPolitical sciencePhilosophyHistoryPolitical sciencePhilosophyHistorySocial sciencesPhilosophyHistorySocial sciencesPhilosophyHistory949.507Kitromilides Paschalis1637235MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814687503321Enlightenment and revolution3978957UNINA