Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / Paschalis M. Kitromilides.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013.Description: xvi, 452 p. : map ; 25 cmISBN: - 9780674725058
- 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
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"An earlier version of this work was originally published in Greek as Neoellinikos Diaphotismos. Oi politikes kai koinonikes idees".
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.