The Greek Crisis and European Modernity

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-44658-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3261 g

Reihe: Identities and Modernities in Europe

This collection explores the current economic and political crisis in Greece and more widely in Europe. Greece is used to illustrate and exemplify the contradictions of the dominant paradigm of European modernity, the ruptures that are inherent to it, and the alternative modernity discourses that develop within Europe.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Triandafyllidou, Anna

Kouki, Hara

Gropas, R.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Is Greece a Modern European Country?; Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas and Hara Kouki 2. International Bubbles, Currency Union and National Failures: The Case of Greece and the Euro; Loukas Tsoukalis 3. We Are All Greeks Now! The Crisis in Greece in its European and Global Context; Yanis Varoufakis 4. On the Jacobin Dimension of Greek Constitutional Tradition; Ioannis A. Tassopoulos 5. 'Memoranda': Greek Exceptionalism or the Mirror of Europe's Future?; George Katrougalos 6. Religion in Contemporary Greece – a Modern Experience?; Thalia Dragonas 7. The Orthodox Church in Greece Today; Stavros Zoumboulakis 8. The Crisis and the Welfare State in Greece: A Complex Relationship; Manos Matsaganis 9. Is the Crisis a Watershed Moment for the Greek Welfare State? The Chances for Modernization Amidst an Ambivalent EU Record on 'Social Europe'; Maria Petmesidou 10. Postscript: Cultural Dualism Revisited; Nikiforos Diamandouros

Über Autor(innen)

Nikiforos Diamandouros, University of Athens, Greece
Thalia Dragonas, University of Athens, Greece
George Katrougalos, University of Thrace, Greece
Manos Matsaganis, Athens University, Greece
Maria Petmesidou, University of Thrace, Greece
Ioannis A. Tassopoulos, University of Athens, Greece
Loukas Tsoukalis, University of Athens, Greece
Yanis Varoufakis, University of Athens, Greece
Stavros Zoumboulakis, Artos Zoes Foundation of Biblical and Theological Studies, Greece