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Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece /

Main Author: Kitromilides, Paschalis.
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Enlightenment > Greece.
Political science > Philosophy > 18th century. > Greece > History
Political science > Philosophy > 19th century. > Greece > History
Social sciences > Philosophy > 18th century. > Greece > History
Social sciences > Philosophy > 19th century. > Greece > History
Greece > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Greece > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Greece > Politics and government > 18th century.
Greece > Politics and government > 19th century.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10782452
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.

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