Table of Contents
Preface ix
Note on Transliteration xv
Introduction to the American Edition 1
Prologue: The Political Meaning of the Enlightenment 14
1 The Long Road to Enlightenment 21
2 The Formation of Modem Greek Historical Consciousness 63
3 The Geography of Civilization: From Adulation to Revolution 89
4 Enlightened Absolutism as a Path to Change 117
5 Ancients and Moderns: Cultural Criticism and the Origins of Republicanism 156
6 The Revolution in France: The Glow and the Shadow 175
7 The Enlightenment's Political Alternative 200
8 The Enlightenment as Social Criticism 230
9 The Republican Synthesis: A Matrix for Nationalism 260
10 The Fate of the Enlightenment 291
Epilogue: The Conditions of Liberal Politics 336
Abbreviations 349
Notes 353
Acknowledgments 429
Index 433