Faubion Modern Greek Lessons

A Primer in Historical Constructivism
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2095-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

No detailed description available for "Modern Greek Lessons".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faubion, James D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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