Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment

by Larry Wolff

Book Overview

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: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"