Kitromilides, Paschalis.

Enlightenment and revolution : the making of modern Greece / Paschalis M. Kitromilides. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.

"An earlier version of this work was originally published in Greek as Neoellinikos Diaphotismos. Oi politikes kai koinonikes idees"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographies 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.



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Philosophy-Ancient
Enlightenment--Greece.
Political science--Philosophy--History--Greece--18th century.
Political science--Philosophy--History--Greece--19th century.
Social sciences--Philosophy--History--Greece--18th century.
Social sciences--Philosophy--History--Greece--19th century.


Electronic Books.

B3511 / .E555 2013