Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor readers without modern Greek, this collection will serve as a necessary starting point for future studies of the life and thought of Adamantios Korais. The essays offer new insights into the different aspects of a many-sided scholarly and political career, and therefore to broader questions concerning the French Revolution and its Relationship to the Greek national movement.
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Nations and NationalismTable of ContentsPaschalis M. Kitromilides, Itineraries in the world of the Enlightenment: Adamantios Korais from Smyrna via Montpellier to Paris
I. A presence in classical scholarshipVivi Perraky, L’histoire britannique de Coray: une histoire de manuscrits (1789-1803)
Ioannis D. Evrigenis, Enlightenment, emancipation, and national identity: Korais and the Ancients
Michael Paschalis, The history and ideological background of Korais’
Iliad project
II. Reflections on language and literaturePeter Mackridge, Korais and the Greek language question
Anna Tabaki, Adamance Coray comme critique littéraire et philologue
III. The dialogue with contemporary ideasRoxane D. Argyropoulos, Adamance Coray et sa réflexion philosophique: vers une anthropologie médicale et culturelle
Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Adamantios Korais and the dilemmas of liberal nationalism
Vassilis Mourdoukoutas, Korais and the idea of progress: from theory to action
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