Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
(Book #17 in the Biblioteka Europy rodka Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0804727023
ISBN13:9780804727020
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:436 Pages
Weight:1.37 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"
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