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Book SynopsisIntroduces 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.
Trade Review"
Modern Greek Lessons seeks to invent a new form for expressing the complexity and ambivalence toward the past, toward Europe, toward the United States, and toward themselves that members of the educated Greek elite struggle with individually and jointly. This is an important contribution from a young scholar who will unquestionably be one of the leading voices of his generation."
—Paul Rabinow"A skilled and compelling writer in the mode of the civilized sojourner. . . . Faubion deals brilliantly with a wide range of topics from contemporary Greek literature to sexuality."
—George Marcus, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Terms And DefinitionsIntroduction For the Time Being: Some Notes on the Manners of Modern Lives3Pt. IReviewing Athens211Model Improbabilities: Athens at First Sight232Remembering and Remodeling: The Metaleptic Metropolis64Pt. IIAnother Modernity993Crossing the Threshold: Notes on Conflict at a Certain Greek Airport1014Sovereignty and Its Discontents1225"Everything Is Possible": Notes on the Greek Modern139Pt. IIIAfter the Colonels: Projects of Self-Definition and Self-Formation Since 19741576The Self Made: Developing a Postnational Character1597The Works of Margharita Karapanou: Literature as a Technology of Self-Formation1848Men Are Not Always What They Seem: From Sexual Modernization toward Sexual Modernity213Epilogue: After the Present242Notes249Bibliography271Index289
