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

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

Wolff, Larry

Paperback

Eastern European HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0804727023
ISBN13: 9780804727020
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jun 1 1996
Pages: 436
Weight: 5.24
Height: 1.50 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

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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