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
nation's dream-like hold over the modern social imagination. The
author 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 current
internal predicaments of the European Community or the tragedy of
the Balkan conflicts.
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