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The Enlightenment as Social Criticism: Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century

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Main Details

Title The Enlightenment as Social Criticism: Iosipos Moisiodax and Greek Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paschalis M. Kitromilides
SeriesPrinceton Modern Greek Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:234
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780691632292
ClassificationsDewey:306.09495
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

In eighteenth-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favor of cultural change embroiled him in ideological conflicts and made him a target of persecution. The first intellectual in Southeastern Europe to voice the ideas of the Enlightenment in public and without qualificatio

Reviews

"This study of one of the first Enlightenment intellectuals in the European periphery is itself a wonderfully enlightening union of biography on the one hand and social and intellectual history on the other. Kitromilides writes brilliantly about the actual experience of intellectual transmission: the high hopes with which the work begins, the fierce resistance it encounters, the human toll it exacts."-Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton