The Enlightenment and the Greek cultural tradition
In: History of European ideas, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 39-46
ISSN: 0191-6599
53 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: History of European ideas, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 39-46
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: History of European ideas, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 39-47
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 778-779
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: European journal of political theory: EJPT, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 50-60
ISSN: 1741-2730
This 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.
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 41, Heft 5, S. 661-663
ISSN: 1743-7881
In: History of political thought, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 465-480
ISSN: 0143-781X
In: European history quarterly, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 167-169
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 33, Heft 5, S. 92-98
ISSN: 1743-7881
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 163-191
ISSN: 1469-8129
Abstract. In this article I attempt to do two things. First I consider in what sense it could be reasonable to talk of a 'Balkan mentality', shared across national divisions by all peoples in Southeastern Europe. I argue among other things that nationalism and its impact on culture and scholarship has been a major stumbling block for the conceptualisation of a shared 'Balkan mentality'. Secondly, I go on to examine one possible context in which a shared mentality could be said to have existed among the Orthodox Christians in the Balkans. I suggest that such a context could be located in the pre‐nationalist Balkan society of the eighteenth century, a period in which the region was politically united by Ottoman rule. To illustrate the content of the mental outlook shared by the Balkan Orthodox in the eighteenth century I examine the autobiographical writings of three major authors, one writing in Greek (Caisarios Depontes), one in Bulgarian (Sofroni Vračanski) and one in Serbian (Matija Nenadović). I identify the shared mental elements reflected in their texts and point out how the transition to a national self‐conception taking place at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Balkans, marked the end of this shared 'Balkan mentality'. The study is thus an exploration in the 'prehistory', as it were, of nationalism in the Balkans, an exploration which also looks at the symbolic origins nationalism in the region as reflected in the texts of two of the three authors.
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 462-464
ISSN: 1354-5078
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 163-192
ISSN: 1354-5078
In: European history quarterly, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 123-127
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 348-352
ISSN: 1552-7476
In: European history quarterly, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 124-126
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 3
ISSN: 0026-3206