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Autore: | Kitromilides Paschalis |
Titolo: | Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / / Paschalis M. Kitromilides |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard Univ. P., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 452 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 949.507 |
Soggetto topico: | Enlightenment - Greece |
Political science - Greece - Philosophy - History - 18th century | |
Political science - Greece - Philosophy - History - 19th century | |
Social sciences - Greece - Philosophy - History - 18th century | |
Social sciences - Greece - Philosophy - History - 19th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Greece Intellectual life 18th century |
Greece Intellectual life 19th century | |
Greece Politics and government 18th century | |
Greece Politics and government 19th century | |
Note generali: | An earlier version of this work was originally published in Greek as Neoellinikos Diaphotismos. Oi politikes kai koinonikes idees |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Enlightenment and revolution |
ISBN: | 9780674726413 (e-book) |
9780674725058 (hbk.) | |
0-674-72766-5 | |
0-674-72641-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814687503321 |
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