Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism - Rilegato

Faubion, James D.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 069109473X ISBN 13: 9780691094731

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

This is a study of the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a city on the margins of Europe, recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta. Drawing inspiration from Athens and its cultural elite, the author explores the meaning of modernity. He finds it not in the singular character of "Western civilization", but instead in an increasingly diverse family of practices of reform. He analyzes an especially instructive example. A circle of Athenian reformers, reclaiming the continuity of an ostensibly discontinuous heritage while charting a course for change, realize their modernity in the practice of what Faubion terms "historical constructivism" - the synthesizing of history, or the absorption of the past into the present.

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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

Dalla quarta di copertina:

"Modern Greek Lessons seeks to invent a new form for expressing the complexity and ambivalence toward the past, toward Europe, toward the United States, and toward themselves that members of the educated Greek elite struggle with individually and jointly. This is an important contribution from a young scholar who will unquestionably be one of the leading voices of his generation."--Paul Rabinow

"A skilled and compelling writer in the mode of the civilized sojourner. . . . Faubion deals brilliantly with a wide range of topics from contemporary Greek literature to sexuality."--George Marcus, Rice University

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 069109473X
• ISBN 13: 9780691094731
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 340