The comprehensive thematic "History of Greece" from the inception of the new Hellenism to the present seeks a new approach to bibliographic data as it reassesses the overall trajectory of Hellenism across space and time.
Through a tumultuous evolution of peaks, contradictions, dependencies, and deterministic assumptions, it would be almost impossible and quite risky to draw specific conclusions with absolute application. The continuous and sudden shifts in behaviors, trends, and emotions compose the psychography of a people who largely defined their own fate and, of course, their historical destiny.
If the geographical position of Hellenism, a product of centuries of historical circumstances, had a decisive impact on the entire spectrum of its cultural perpetuation, its deep-seated and impulsive contradictions correspondingly marked its behaviors. Historical acts, products of their times, undoubtedly charted multifaceted trajectories and extremely delicate balances.
The modern Greek phenomenon, however, is based on a form of inexhaustible starting points, which were inaugurated each time when the deadlock had completed its purpose. Thus, almost always, when a new era and a new starting point were proclaimed in the neighboring environment, more often than not, that event, over time, would repeat itself, ending in a vicious cycle of ruptures, conflicts, and disturbances so as to return later to a process of new beginnings, clearly worsening and negatively evolving for Greek national interests.
Hellenism was a deterministic reality that inevitably collided with the limits of what was feasible and possible. It had to contend between two forms without achieving an absolute separation of the dreamlike from the pragmatic. The dominant alternation of the two forms, for a very long period as they functioned in the historical field of the Greek journey, betrayed a confused and spurious course between two diametrically opposed spaces of choice, which in practice were inherently connected, a phenomenon that directly influenced the entire construction of both Hellenism and the global Greek diaspora.
The existential entity of the latter was constantly undermined and contested by the oscillating movement of Hellenism, a stance that betrayed and revealed its divided and utterly immature nature.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Konstantinos A. Vakalopoulos
- Publisher
- Stamoulis Ant.
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- Academic History
- Theme
- Modern and Contemporary Greece, Science of History
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- From the genesis of the new Hellenism (1204) to modern Greece (2000)
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 520
- Release Date
- 6/2005
- Publication Date
- 2005
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789608353770
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