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

Larry Wolff

ISBN 10: 0804727023 / ISBN 13: 9780804727020

Edité par Stanford University Press, 1994

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pp. 436. N° de réf. du vendeur 18939840

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Titre : Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of ...

Éditeur : Stanford University Press

Date d'édition : 1994

Reliure : Couverture souple

Etat : Used

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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".