Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / Paschalis M. Kitromilides.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (471 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780674726413 (e-book)
- Neoellinikos diaphotismos. English
- 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
- Greece -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- Greece -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Greece -- Politics and government -- 18th century
- Greece -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- 949.507 23
- B3511.E54 K47 2013
"An earlier version of this work was originally published in Greek as Neoellinikos Diaphotismos. Oi politikes kai koinonikes idees"--Title page verso.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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