The Greek Crisis and Its Cultural Origins: A Study in the Theory of Multiple Modernities (Hardcover, 2019)

Forward Introduction PART 1: AN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GREEK POLITICAL CULTURE Chapter 1. An Analytic Model of Culture and Power 1.1. Cosmological and ontological principles 1.2. Discourses, code-orientations and organizational ground rules 1.3. Methodical ways of life and substantive rationality 1.4. The binary codification of morality 1.5. Collective effervescence 1.6. Demarcating Between Power and Meaning 1.8. Conclusions and concomitant suppositions Chapter 2. The Greek self in social analysis 2.1 The anarchic individualism of the Greek self 2.2. Amoral familism and the moral content of collectivism 2.3. Mythical collectivism: the modernization of collectivism 2.4 From amoral familism to anarchic individualism 2.5. Conclusions Chapter 3. Clientelistic Social Structures and Cultural Orientations 3.1. State formation and clientelism in Greece 3.2. Social power and clientelism 3.3. Culture and generalized clientelism 3.4. America and Ireland: Two examples of limited clientelism 3.5. Conclusions Chapter 4. Religion and collective representations of communitas 4.1. Temporal continuity of symbolic classifications 4.2. Symbolic classifications and the theory of multiple modernities 4.3. The Greek Orthodox ontology in a Weberian framework of analysis 4.3. Orthodox cosmology 4.4. The Greek Orthodox cognitive mode 4.5. The Icon 4.6. Ceremonies and rituals 4.7. Greek Orthodox effects on in-worldly constitutive goods 4.8. The Ramfos' Thesis 4.9. The Greek Orthodox conundrum 4.10. Orthodox religiosity and the 'order-taking' classes 4.11. Greek Orthodox code-orientations Chapter 5. Civil religions of a modern communitas (1833-1989) 5.1. On civil religion 5.2. The secular and the religious constants of the Greek civil religion 5.2.2 The political ground base of civil religion 5.2.3 The religious ground base of civil religion 5.3 Sponsored civic religion (1833-1974) Chapter 6. Civil Religion after the Dictatorship - The First Metapolitefis (1974-1989) 6.1. The Metapolitefsis civil religion (1974-1989) 6.2. Charisma and civil religion in Metapolitefsis 6.3. From a collectivist civil religion to populist political orientations 6.4. Populist code orientations and ground rules 6.5. The structural effects of populism 6.6. Conclusions Chapter 7. The discourses of the Second Metapolitefsis and of the Social Crisis (1989-2015) 7.1 Systemic frustrations, symbolic black holes 7.2. Ethno-populism: the collectivist offshoot 7.3. Ethno-romanticism: the individualist offshoot 7.4. The economic crisis: A brief description 7.5. The Perfect Storm 7.6. The one pro-, and the three anti-memorandum narratives 7.7. The rise of illiberal radicalism and the fall of the Sacred Communitas (2015-2018) PART 2: THE SYMBOLIC STRUCTURE OF THE GREEK PUBLIC SPHERE Chapter 8. Data and methods Chapter 9. Constitutive goods 9.1. Choosing constitutive goods 9.2. Frequencies 9.3. The Patterned orders of the constitutive goods 9.4. Concluding remarks Chapter 10. Code orientations 10.1. Description of statements 10.2. Data analysis of code orientations 10.3. The three code orientations of the Greek political culture 10.3.1. The entrenched habitus discourse 10.3.2. The populist discourse 10.3.3. The egalitarian discourse 10.4. Concluding remarks Chapter 11. The patterned orders of ethics 11.1. The Hobbesian ethics 11.2. The egoistic ethics 11.3. The schismogenetic ethno-populist ethics 11.4. The schismogenetic ethno-romantic ethics 11.5. The clientelistic ethics 11.6. The civil ethics 11.7. Concluding remarks Chapter 12. The ethics of the collectivist self 12.1. The primacy of the collectivist self 12.2. The communicating vessels of collectivist social behavior 12.3. Concluding remarks Part 3: THE FORMATION OF T