Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Published by Stanford University Press, 1994
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- Title
- Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
- Author
- Wolff, Larry
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0804727023
- ISBN 13
- 9780804727020
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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“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
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