Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Published by Stanford University Press, 1996
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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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- Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
- Author
- Larry Wolff
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 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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