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Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece
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ISBN10: 0804726388
ISBN13: 9780804726382
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 1996
Pages: 320
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780804726382
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 1996
Pages: 320
Language: English
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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