Description
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.
Author: Larry Wolff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06/01/1996
Pages: 436
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 5.24lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780804727020
ISBN10: 0804727023
BISAC Categories:
- History | Eastern Europe | General
- History | Russia & the Former Soviet Union