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Slavic Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-204
Author(s):  
Bennett Kovrig
2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 111-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz L. Fillafer

The Enlightenment seems out of kilter. Until fairly recently, its trajectories were beguilingly simple and straightforward. Devised by Western metropolitan masterminds, the Enlightenment was piously appropriated by their latter-day apprentices in Central and Eastern Europe. This process of benign percolation made modern science, political liberty, and religious toleration trickle down to East-Central Europe. The self-orientalizing of nineteenth-century Central European intellectuals reinforced this impression, making concepts that were ostensibly authentic and pristine at their “Western” sources seem garbled and skewed once appropriated in their region.


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