Modern Greek Lessons

by Faubion, James D.

• ISBN13: 9780691000503
• ISBN10: 0691000506
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-10-30
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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