28 research outputs found
Relations Gréco - Roumaines. Interculturalité et identité nationale. Sous la direction de P.M. Kitromilides et A. Tabaki [2004 (p. 314)]
No full textGreek - Bulgarian Relations in the Age of National Identity Formation. Edited by P.M. Kitromilides and Anna Tabaki [2010 ( σ . 340)]
No full textEnlightenment and religion in the Orthodox world
No full textThe place of religion in the Enlightenment has been keenly debated for many years. Research has tended, however, to examine the interplay of religion and knowledge in Western countries, often ignoring the East. In Enlightenment and religion in the Orthodox world leading historians address this imbalance by exploring the intellectual and cultural challenges and changes that took place in Orthodox communities during the eighteenth century. The two main centres of Orthodoxy, the Greek-speaking world and the Russian Empire, are the focus of early chapters, with specialists analysing the integration of modern cosmology into Greek education, and the Greek alternative ‘enlightenment’, the spiritual Philokalia. Russian experts also explore the battle between the spiritual and the rational in the works of Voulgaris and Levshin. Smaller communities of Eastern Europe were faced with their own particular difficulties, analysed by contributors in the second part of the book. Governed by modernising princes who embraced Enlightenment ideals, Romanian society was fearful of the threat to its traditional beliefs, whilst Bulgarians were grappling in different ways with a new secular ideology. The particular case of the politically-divided Serbian world highlights how Dositej Obradović’s complex humanist views have been used for varying ideological purposes ever since. The final chapter examines the encroachment of the secular on the traditional in art, and the author reveals how Western styles and models of representation were infiltrating Orthodox art and artefacts. Through these innovative case studies this book deepens our understanding of how Christian and secular systems of knowledge interact in the Enlightenment, and provides a rich insight into the challenges faced by leaders and communities in eighteenth-century Orthodox Europe. Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Preface Paschalis M. Kitromilides, 1. The Enlightenment and the Orthodox world: historiographical and theoretical challenges Vassilios N. Makrides, 2. The Enlightenment in the Greek Orthodox East: appropriation, dilemmas, ambiguities Efthymios Nicolaidis, 3. The Greek Enlightenment, the Orthodox Church and modern science Dimitrios Moschos, 4. An alternative ‘enlightenment’: the Philokalia Iannis Carras, 5. Understanding God and tolerating humankind: Orthodoxy and the Enlightenment in Evgenios Voulgaris and Platon Levshin Elena Smilianskaia, 6. The battle against superstition in eighteenth-century Russia: between ‘rational’ and ‘spiritual’ Andrei Pippidi, 7. The Enlightenment and Orthodox culture in the Romanian principalities Nenad Ristović, 8. The Enlightenment of Dositej Obradović in the context of Christian classical humanism Marija Petrović, 9. The Serbian Church hierarchy and popular education in the Hapsburg lands during the eighteenth century Bojan Aleksov, 10. The vicissitudes of Dositej Obradović’s Enlightenment cult among the Serbs Vassilis Maragos, 11. The challenge of secularism in Bulgarian Orthodox society Eugenia Drakopoulou, 12. The interplay of Orthodoxy and Enlightenment in religious art Summaries Bibliography Inde
The modernity of nations. A tribute to Walker Connor
No full textTo fully appreciate Walker Connor's contribution to the foundation of the contemporary study of nationalism, two main factors must be taken into account. First, the context of positivist behavioural political science within which in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, he articulated his critique of the concept of nation-building. In this context, Connor emerged as a critic of the limitations and the naivité of positivist modernization theory. His dissenting voice called for critical rethinking and revision of the central concepts of the theory of political development, some of which enjoyed almost doctrinal status. Second, despite his criticism of modernization theory, Connor retained a strong conviction that nations and national sentiment were the products of modernity; indeed, in his judgement, they formed the primary content of modernity. This too was a critical stance within the rising tide of nationalism studies since 1989–1990, when ideology and wishful thinking influenced to a considerable extent the interpretation of nationalism. Walker Connor's intellectual legacy should thus be understood as a heritage of critical thought that is informed by a noteworthy awareness of the moral responsibilities of scholarly analysis. © The author(s) 2018. Nations and Nationalism © ASEN/John Wiley & Sons Ltd 201
The Enlightenment and the Greek cultural tradition
No full textThis article has been published in the journal, History of European Ideas[© Elsevier]. The definitive version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2009.06.001Journal URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01916599In this paper I attempt to situate the expression of the secular culture of the Enlightenment in the Greek context into the broader intellectual and spiritual tradition defined by the Greek language. The analysis points at the breaks introduced into this
tradition by the Enlightenment (in historical and geographical conceptions, in scientific and political thought and in the understanding of the classics) but it also argues that despite its novelty the Enlightenment shared a considerable heritage with
the broader Orthodox religious culture into which it was transmitted in Southeastern Europe. This point is illustrated by reference to biographical evidence, supplied by the life histories of three important exponents of the Enlightenment writing in Greek (E. Voulgaris, Iosipos Moisiodax and N. Doukas). The complex relation between the Enlightenment and earlier Greek intellectual traditions is underlined in conclusion
Reviews : Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, Europe: A History of its Peoples (translated by Richard Mayne), London, Viking, 1990; 424 pp.; £25.00
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'Imagined Communities' and the Origins of the National Question in the Balkans
No full textFrom republican patriotism to national sentiment: A reading of Hellenic Nomarchy
No full textThis article attempts to add a corrective to the exclusive focus of the academic historiography of republicanism on the mainstream of the tradition in Italy and north-western Europe by bringing a perspective from the European south-east on the transmission and evolution of republican ideas. An illustration of this broader perspective on the history of republicanism is provided by the treatise Hellenic Nomarchy anonymously published in Italy in 1806. The article examines the origins of Modern Greek republicanism, the meaning of 'nomarchy' and the context and sources of the work. It stresses its social and political radicalism and points to its affinities with the ideas of 18th-century Tuscan republicanism and with the work of Vittorio Alfieri and Ugo Foscolo. © SAGE Publications Ltd
European political thought in the making of Greek liberalism: The second national assembly of 1862-1864 and the reception of John Stuart Mill’s ideas in Greece
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