Enlightenment and Revolution : The Making of Modern Greece / Paschalis M. Kitromilides.
Kitromilides, Paschalis M., author.
2013
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Title Enlightenment and Revolution : The Making of Modern Greece / Paschalis M. Kitromilides.
Author Kitromilides, Paschalis M., author.
ISBN 9780674726413
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726413
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
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Description 1 online resource : 1 map
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674726413 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 949.507
Summary 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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Note on Transliteration
Introduction to the American Edition
Prologue
1. The Long Road to Enlightenment
2. The Formation of Modern Greek Historical Consciousness
3. The Geography of Civilization: From Adulation to Revolution
4. Enlightened Absolutism as a Path to Change
5. Ancients and Moderns: Cultural Criticism and the Origins of Republicanism
6. The Revolution in France: Th e Glow and the Shadow
7. The Enlightenment's Political Alternative
8. The Enlightenment as Social Criticism
9. The Republican Synthesis: A Matrix for Nationalism
10. The Fate of the Enlightenment
Epilogue: The Conditions of Liberal Politics
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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