INTRODUCTION: For the Time Being: Some Notes on the Manners of Modern Lives

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. PREFACE: TERMS AND DEFINITIONS xi
5. INTRODUCTION: For the Time Being: Some Notes on the Manners of Modern Lives 1
6. PART I: REVIEWING ATHENS
7. 1. Model Improbabilities: Athens at First Sight 23
8. 2. Remembering and Remodeling: The Metaleptic Metropolis 64
9. PART II: ANOTHER MODERNITY
10. 3. Crossing the Threshold: Notes on Conflict at a Certain Greek Airport 101
11. 4. Sovereignty and Its Discontents 122
12. 5. “Everything Is Possible”: Notes on the Greek Modern 139
13. PART III: AFTER THE COLONELS: PROJECTS OF SELF-DEFINITION AND SELF-FORMATION SINCE 1974
14. 6. The Self Made: Developing a Postnational Character 159
15. 7. The Works of Margharita Karapanou: Literature as a Technology of Self-Formation 184
16. 8. Men Are Not Always What They Seem: From Sexual Modernization toward Sexual Modernity 213
17. EPILOGUE: After the Present 242
18. NOTES 249
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 271
20. INDEX 289