Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment

Name: Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804727020-V
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By Larry Wolff

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This is a wide-ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe". The author argues that this conceptual reorientation from the previously accepted "Northern" and "Southern" was a work of cultural construction and intellectual artifice created by the philosophes of the Enlightenment. He shows how the philosophers viewed the continent from the perspective of Paris and deliberately cultivated an idea of the backwardness of "Eastern Europe" the more readily to affirm the importance of "Western Europe".

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 436
Release Date:: 1996-01-01
Publication Date:: 1996-01-01
Publisher:: Stanford University Press
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0804727023
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 612 g

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