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

Wolff, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804723141 ISBN 13: 9780804723145

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

In this provocative, wide-ranging history of how the continent of Europe came to be conceived as divided into “Western Europe” and “Eastern Europe,” the author shows that it was not a natural distinction, or even an innocent one, but instead was a work of cultural creation, of intellectual artifice, of ideological self-interest and self-promotion.

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“Thought-provoking and well written, . . . Wolff’s book provides a valuable treatment of the ways in which ‘Enlightened’ thinkers conceive of the lands east of the Elbe. . . . A very welcome contribution to both the history of the Enlightenment and the Western understanding of Eastern Europe.” —The Russian Review
“The distinction between East and West Europe is a seemingly immemorial cliché that desperately needs dismantling, and Wolff does it with erudition and a lively dramatic sense.”—Voice Literary Supplement

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804723141
• ISBN 13: 9780804723145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 436