{"product_id":"inventing-eastern-europe-the-map-of-civilization-on-the-mind-of-the-enlightenment-paperback-softback-9780804727020","title":"Inventing Eastern Europe; The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804727020","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInventing Eastern Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLarry Wolff (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804727020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e436 pages, 13 illus\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.585 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Thought-provoking and well written, . . . Wolff's book provides a valuable treatment of the ways in which 'Enlightened' thinkers conceive of the lands east of the Elbe. . . . A very welcome contribution to both the history of the Enlightenment and the Western understanding of Eastern Europe.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"The distinction between East and West Europe is a seemingly immemorial cliché that desperately needs dismantling, and Wolff does it with erudition and a lively dramatic sense.\"—\u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520725283096,"sku":"9780804727020","price":25.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/inventing-eastern-europe-the-map-of-civilization-on-the-mind-of-the-enlightenment-paperback-softback-9780804727020","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}