Enlightenment and Revolution

‘Greek Enlightenment’ is the name given to the intellectual current which introduced the ideas of the north European Enlightenment across much of the Balkans from the middle of the eighteenth century to the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s. In recent decades, this movement has attracted the attention of prominent Greek scholars, such as the literary critic K.Th. Dimaras, the historian Alkis Angellou and the philosopher Panayiotis Kondylis, who have studied it from the viewpoint of their respective disciplines. Paschalis Kitromilides’ book, which is essentially a translation of a Greek original published in 1996 under the title Neoellinikós Diaphotismós (Modern Greek Enlightenment), represents another major study of this movement from the perspective of the history of political ideas. Although the author claims to be offering ‘the only general synthesis’ available on the subject, this assertion somewhat overstates the scope of the book, the last seven chapters of which (from a total of ten) are focused on the movement’s political thought

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