@article{1479455,
      author = {Kitromilides, Paschalis M.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479455},
      title = {Enlightenment and Revolution : The Making of Modern Greece  /},
      abstract = {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.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726413},
      recid = {1479455},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
}