Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy: Studies in the Culture and Political Thought of Southeastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780860784432 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 296 str.

Paschalis M. Kitromilides

Opis

This volume contains 13 studies on the impact of the Enlightenment on the political thought and culture of the Balkans in the 18th-19th centuries, and on the development of the concept of nationality, in particular amongst the Greek-speaking peoples.

Recenzje

'...a valuable contribution to the field...the book’s intellectual scope and comparative depth are remarkable.' Modern Greek Studies

Spis treści

Contents: The Enlightenment East and West: a comparative perspective on the ideological origins of the Balkan political traditions; War and political consciousness: theoretical implications of 18th-century Greek historiography; The idea of science in the modern Greek Enlightenment; Cultural change and social criticism: the case of Iossipos Moisiodax; Republican aspirations in south-eastern Europe in the age of the French Revolution; Religious criticism between Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Ideological consequences of social conflict in Smyrna; The Enlightenment and womanhood: cultural change and the politics of exclusion; Jeremy Bentham and Adamantios Korais; European political thought in the making of Greek liberalism: the Second National Assembly of 1862-1864 and the reception of John Stuart Mill’s ideas in Greece; Modernisation as an ideological dilemma in south-eastern Europe: from national revival to liberal reconstruction; ’Imagined communities’ and the origins of the national question in the Balkans; The dialectic of intolerance: ideological dimensions of ethnic conflict; Greek irredentism in Asia Minor and in Cyprus; Bibliographical and critical notes; Index.