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Dream Nation - Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
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Dream Nation - Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
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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.
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 the book
includes a new preface by the author in which he situates the
book's 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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