Enlightenment and Revolution

Enlightenment and Revolution
Author: Paschalis M. Kitromilides
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674726413

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Greece sits at the center of a geopolitical storm that threatens the stability of the European Union. To comprehend how this small country precipitated such an outsized crisis, it is necessary to understand how Greece developed into a nation in the first place. Enlightenment and Revolution identifies the ideological traditions that shaped a religious community of Greek-speaking people into a modern nation-state--albeit one in which antiliberal forces have exacted a high price. Paschalis Kitromilides takes in the vast sweep of the Greek Enlightenment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, assessing developments such as the translation of modern authors into Greek; the scientific revolution; the rediscovery of the civilization of classical Greece; and a powerful countermovement. He shows how Greek thinkers such as Voulgaris and Korais converged with currents of the European Enlightenment, and demonstrates how the Enlightenment's confrontation with Church-sanctioned ideologies shaped present-day Greece. When the nation-state emerged from a decade-long revolutionary struggle against the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, the dream of a free Greek polity was soon overshadowed by a romanticized nationalist and authoritarian vision. The failure to create a modern liberal state at that decisive moment is at the root of Greece's recent troubles.

Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution

Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution
Author: Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780231176323

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Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab offers a groundbreaking analysis of Egyptian and Syrian debates over enlightenment and their import for the 2011 uprisings. Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution is the first book to document these debates for the Anglophone audience and to analyze their importance for contemporary intellectual life and politics.

A Revolution of the Mind

A Revolution of the Mind
Author: Jonathan Israel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2011-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691152608

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Conserving the Enlightenment

Conserving the Enlightenment
Author: Jānis Langins
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262122580

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A study of French military engineers at a crucial point in the evolution of modern engineering.

Democratic Enlightenment

Democratic Enlightenment
Author: Jonathan Israel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1083
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199668094

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That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does. In Democratic Enlightenment, Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. The American Revolution and its concerns certainly acted as a major factor in the intellectual ferment that shaped the wider upheaval that followed, but the radical philosophes were no less critical than enthusiastic about the American model. From 1789, the General Revolution's impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups represented in the French National assembly, they nonetheless forged "la philosophie moderne"-in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas-into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America, Canada and Eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. In addition, Israel argues that while all French revolutionary journals powerfully affirmed that la philosophie moderne was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste "Revolution of reason."

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke
Author: Peter James Stanlis
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1958
Genre: Natural law
ISBN: 9781412822206

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Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine
Author: Craig Nelson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2007-09-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780143112389

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A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. By acquainting us as never before with this complex and combative genius, Nelson rescues a giant from obscurity-and gives us a fascinating work of history.

Engineering the Revolution

Engineering the Revolution
Author: Ken Alder
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0226012654

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Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technological life.” Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history of one particular artifact—the gun—by offering a novel and historical account of how material artifacts emerge as the outcome of political struggle. By expanding the “political” to include conflict over material objects, this volume rethinks the nature of engineering rationality, the origins of mass production, the rise of meritocracy, and our interpretation of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.