Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization and the Institution of Modern Greece

by Stathis Gourgouris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726388
• ISBN13: 9780804726382
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.