Insular Destinies by Paschalis Kitromilides
In this collection, an eminent authority on the history of political thought and on the intellectual history of modern Hellenism employs his twin academic specializations in political science and in intellectual history to understand the intricacies of the historical experience of his native island. Writing in a perspective inspired by the work of Fernand Braudel, he attempts in a series of studies in cultural and social history to recover lost and overlooked aspects of the collective destinies of Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora in the centuries of Ottoman rule, a period of critical significance for the survival of the people of the island. He then turns to a penetrating analysis of the politics of the Cyprus Question. The pertinent studies collected in this volume bear the imprint of the deep soul-searching by the younger generation of Cypriot scholars at the time of the tragedy of 1974 over what went so wrong that their country was exposed to foreign invasion, occupation and division. The hints at answers to these questions offered by the author’s interdisciplinary and critical treatment of the subject make this work an indispensable aid to anyone wishing to grasp the deeper antinomies and dilemmas immanent in the Cyprus Question.‘The volume anthologizes studies which can safely be characterized as works of fundamental importance for anyone seeking to study modern Cyprus in a comprehensive mannerNot merely because of the new disciplinary pathways which they carved out for scholars, with respect, for example, to the crucial impact of electoral politics on the island’s social reconfiguration, or owing to the conceptual frameworks that they established based on paradigm-setting concepts such as "the dialectic of intolerance": primarily because they constitute bold, far-sighted introspective treatments of the Cyprus Question articulated during a period when few ventured to reflect critically on the issue’ - George Kalpadakis in Kathimerini, 30 April to 02 May 2021.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781032085296 |
| ISBN 10 | 1032085290 |
| Title | Insular Destinies |
| Author | Paschalis Kitromilides |
| Series | British School At Athens - Modern Greek And Byzantine Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 242 |
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