The Greek Crisis and European Modernity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Is Greece a Modern European Country?

   • Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas, Hara Kouki

   Pages 1-24

3. International Bubbles, European Currency Union, and National Failures: The Case of Greece and the Euro Crisis

   • Loukas Tsoukalis

   Pages 25-43

4. We Are All Greeks Now! The Crisis in Greece in Its European and Global Context

   • Yanis Varoufakis

   Pages 44-58

5. On the Jacobin Dimension of Greek Constitutional Tradition

   • Ioannis A. Tassopoulos

   Pages 59-88

6. ‘Memoranda’: Greek Exceptionalism or the Mirror of Europe’s Future?

   • George Katrougalos

   Pages 89-109

7. Religion in Contemporary Greece — A Modern Experience?

   • Thalia Dragonas

   Pages 110-131

8. The Orthodox Church in Greece Today

   • Stavros Zoumboulakis

   Pages 132-151

9. The Crisis and the Welfare State in Greece: A Complex Relationship

   • Manos Matsaganis

   Pages 152-177

10. 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

    Pages 178-207

11. Postscript: Cultural Dualism Revisited

    • P. Nikiforos Diamandouros

    Pages 208-232

12. Back Matter

    Pages 233-237

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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.

• constitution
• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• Greece
• Nation
• religion
• Tradition

• European University Institute, Italy

  Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas, Hara Kouki

• Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

  Ruby Gropas

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

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