Institutehttp://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 04/07/2020 16:43:17 | Narrating the story of a failed national transition 50 promemorandum discourse that has been propagated by the political establishment and mainstream media since the outset of the crisis and that interprets the current crisis as a crisis of Greek identity: Greece failed to reform where necessary due to the domination of the traditional political culture (over a "modern" one) that is to blame for the failed transition since 1974 to postwar European modernity. The second part of this article situates this dominant narrative within the broader context of scholarly literature and academic discourses that have attempted, in different periods and in diverse ways, to conceptualise and prescribe the transition to modernity followed not only by Greece, but by other societies the world over. By unfolding the creation of this "failed transition" story while examining it in relation to broader narratives and discourses, this brief study forms a vantage point from which to observe how history is experienced by societies in crisis and, thus, witness "history in the making".
HISTOREINVO LUM E 7 ( 2007) 21 of future time and of the social expectations and anxieties in writing and thinking history is often undervalued in the history and theory of historiography.2 This paper argues that the exploration of the link between utopian and historical thinking is necessary for understanding the horizon of longterm social expectations in writing history. From this point of view, ideas about the future are part of the deep structure which forms our understanding of what is historical thinking.
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