Description: Dream Nation : Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece, Paperback by Gourgouris, Stathis, ISBN 1503630633, ISBN-13 9781503630635, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
Against the backdrop of ever-increasing nationalist violence during the last decade of the twentieth century, this book challenges standard analyses of nation formation by elaborating on the nations dream-like hold over the modern social imagination. Stathis Gourgouris argues that the national fantasy lies at the core of the Enlightenment imaginary, embodying its central paradox: the intertwining of anthropological universality with the primacy of a cultural ideal.
Crucial to the operation of this paradox and fundamental in its ambiguity is the figure of Greece, the universal alibi and cultural predicate behind national-cultural consolidation throughout colonialist Europe. The largely unpredictable institution of a modern Greek nation in 1830 undoes the interweaving of Enlightenment and Philhellenism, whose centrifugal strands continue to unravel the certainty of European history, down to the internal predicaments of the European Union or the tragedy of the Balkan conflicts.
This 25th Anniversary edition of th includes a new preface by the author in which he situates ths original insights in retrospect against the newer developments in the social and political conditions of a now globalized world: the neocolonial resurgence of nationalism and racism, the failure of social democratic institutions, the crisis of sovereignty and citizenship, and the brutal conditions of stateless peoples.
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Book Title: Dream Nation : Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution o
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Dream Nation : Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), General, Semiotics & Theory
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, History
Author: Stathis Gourgouris
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
