La Grèce moderne : un paradigme national issu du cosmosystème hellénique

In: Pôle sud: revue de science politique, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 113-130

Abstract

Greece represents a différent paradigm of transition to the modern anthropocentric cosmosystem (large-scale). In contrast with the other European countries, to which the model of transition from despotism (or feudalism) to anthropocentrism corresponds, Greek society descends directly from the Hellenic — or anthropocentric — cosmosystem (small-scale), based on the city. This different origin suggests a different logic of relationship between society and politics, and beyond that, a different political end. In the one case, the societies aspire to the construction of basic anthropocentric parameters. In the second, the political system, which emanates from primary anthropocentrism, seeks to impose itself on a society that lives a political culture based on apost-statocentric or ecumenical legacy of freedoms (in the plural). In this sense, Greek society shows how a system of transition to anthropocentrism, like that of modernity, is articulated with a highly developed society from the point of view of politics. It is, then, a precious laboratory to effect projections of modernity into die future.