Enlightenment and revolution : : the making of modern Greece / / Paschalis M. Kitromilides.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : Harvard University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (471 pages) |
| Notes: | "An earlier version of this work was originally published in Greek as Neoellinikos Diaphotismos. Oi politikes kai koinonikes idees"--Title page verso. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.