LEADER 04528nam 2200697za 450 001 9910814687503321 005 20231205175940.0 010 $a9780674726413 (e-book) 010 $a9780674725058 (hbk.) 010 $a0-674-72766-5 010 $a0-674-72641-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674726413 035 $a(CKB)2550000001140827 035 $a(EBL)3301347 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000941122 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12402437 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000941122 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10963530 035 $a(PQKB)11026175 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301347 035 $a(DE-B1597)209635 035 $a(OCoLC)861200170 035 $a(OCoLC)979755618 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726413 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301347 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10782452 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001140827 100 $a20130211d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|nnn||||| 200 10$aEnlightenment and revolution $ethe making of modern Greece /$fPaschalis M. Kitromilides 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard Univ. P.$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 452 p.) $cill 300 $aAn earlier version of this work was originally published in Greek as Neoellinikos Diaphotismos. Oi politikes kai koinonikes idees 311 1 $a0-674-72505-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction 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. 330 $aGreece 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. 606 $aEnlightenment$zGreece 606 $aPolitical science$zGreece$xPhilosophy$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPolitical science$zGreece$xPhilosophy$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial sciences$zGreece$xPhilosophy$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSocial sciences$zGreece$xPhilosophy$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aGreece$xIntellectual life$y18th century 607 $aGreece$xIntellectual life$y19th century 607 $aGreece$xPolitics and government$y18th century 607 $aGreece$xPolitics and government$y19th century 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy$xHistory 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy$xHistory 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy$xHistory 676 $a949.507 700 $aKitromilides$b Paschalis$01637235 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814687503321 996 $aEnlightenment and revolution$93978957 997 $aUNINA