Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism - Brossura

Faubion, James D.

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ISBN 10: 0691000506 ISBN 13: 9780691000503

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Through a blend of lively detail and elegant narration, James Faubion immerses us in the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the "margins of Europe" recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta. Drawing inspiration from Athens and its cultural elite, Faubion explores the meaning of modernity, finding it not in the singular character of "Western civilization" but instead in an increasingly diverse family of practices of reform.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

James D. Faubion is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.

Contenuti:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface: Terms And Definitions
	Introduction For the Time Being: Some Notes on the Manners of Modern Lives	3
Pt. I	Reviewing Athens	21
1	Model Improbabilities: Athens at First Sight	23
2	Remembering and Remodeling: The Metaleptic Metropolis	64
Pt. II	Another Modernity	99
3	Crossing the Threshold: Notes on Conflict at a Certain Greek Airport	101
4	Sovereignty and Its Discontents	122
5	"Everything Is Possible": Notes on the Greek Modern	139
Pt. III	After the Colonels: Projects of Self-Definition and Self-Formation Since 1974	157
6	The Self Made: Developing a Postnational Character	159
7	The Works of Margharita Karapanou: Literature as a Technology of Self-Formation	184
8	Men Are Not Always What They Seem: From Sexual Modernization toward Sexual Modernity	213
	Epilogue: After the Present	242
	Notes	249
	Bibliography	271
	Index	289

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0691000506
• ISBN 13: 9780691000503
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 332