Re-Inventing the Enlightenment
Western Images of Eastern Realities in the Eighteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9641985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Confino (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 505-522 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Slavonic Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-5006 • E-ISSN: 2375-2475 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00085006.1994.11092071 |
| OpenAlex | W2049021050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
The Enlightenment was a complex cultural and intellectual movement informed by a secular, humanist, universalist, and rationalist outlook. It influenced many fields of thought and learning, and in particular philosophy, empirical epistemology, science, and the critical examination of the political and ecclesiastical institutions of the time. It is a vast subject, and so is the ever growing scholarly literature dealing with it. In this book, Larry Wolff, associate professor at Boston College, has addressed a specific yet important item in the Enlightenment's worldview: its notions and representations of Russia and Poland, and their meaning in European culture. This is an erudite and well written book, and although it is based on well-known primary sources already used by scholars, it brings new vistas and hypotheses on several issues in Europe's intellectual life in the eighteenth century and on the enlighteners' Philosophic Geography.^ Wolff has worked many years on this book, and we are indebted to him for a number of insights and interesting observations. Some of his findings are well founded, others invite further debate and inquiry, all deserve attention and close analysis
Aesthetics · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Humanism · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Central European and Russian historical studies · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · History · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2023 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |