ENGLISH

Inventing Eastern Europe: the map of civilization on the mind of the enlightenment

By Larry Wolff

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
9780804727020
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
107 MB (112021261 bytes)
Pages
436\436
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 05:49:25

Description

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".

Similar books