The Greek Crisis and European Modernity

by Anna Triandafyllidou, R. Gropas (Editor), Hara Kouki

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137276247
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/30/2013
Series:	Identities and Modernities in Europe
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Preface and Acknowledgements x

Notes on Contributors xii

1 Introduction: Is Greece a Modern European Country? Anna Triandafyllidou Ruby Gropas Hara Kouki 1

2 International Bubbles, European Currency Union, and National Failures: The Case of Greece and the Euro Crisis Loukas Tsoukalis 25

3 We Are All Greeks Now! The Crisis in Greece in Its European and Global Context Yanis Varoufakis 44

4 On the Jacobin Dimension of Greek Constitutional Tradition Ioannis A. Tassopoulos 59

5 'Memoranda': Greek Exceptionalism or the Mirror of Europe's Future? George Katrougalos 89

6 Religion in Contemporary Greece - A Modern Experience? Thalia Dragonas 110

7 The Orthodox Church in Greece Today Stavros Zoumboulakis 132

8 The Crisis and the Welfare State in Greece: A Complex Relationship Manos Matsaganis 152

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 178

10 Postscript: Cultural Dualism Revisited P. Nikiforos Diamandouros 208

Index 233