Dream nation : enlightenment, colonization, and the institution of modern Greece

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Dream nation : enlightenment, colonization, and the institution of modern Greece

Stathis Gourgouris

Stanford University Press, c2021

25th anniversary ed

  • : pbk

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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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Contents and Abstracts1The Nation's Dream-Work chapter abstract 2The Formal Imagination, I: The Back Roads of Developmentfrom Enlightenment to Bureaucracy chapter abstract 3The Formal Imagination, II: Natural History and NationalPedagogy-The Case of Korais chapter abstract 4The Punishment of Philhellenism chapter abstract 5The Phantasms of Writing, I: Makriyiannis and the Miraclesof National Memory chapter abstract 6The Phantasms of Writing, II: Nostalgia for Utopia-the Idolatries of Seferis chapter abstract 7Homologia/Apologia: The Writing of National History chapter abstract

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