| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface: Terms And Definitions | |
| Introduction For the Time Being: Some Notes on the Manners of Modern Lives | 3 |
| Pt. I | Reviewing Athens | 21 |
| 1 | Model Improbabilities: Athens at First Sight | 23 |
| 2 | Remembering and Remodeling: The Metaleptic Metropolis | 64 |
| Pt. II | Another Modernity | 99 |
| 3 | Crossing the Threshold: Notes on Conflict at a Certain Greek Airport | 101 |
| 4 | Sovereignty and Its Discontents | 122 |
| 5 | "Everything Is Possible": Notes on the Greek Modern | 139 |
| Pt. III | After the Colonels: Projects of Self-Definition and Self-Formation Since 1974 | 157 |
| 6 | The Self Made: Developing a Postnational Character | 159 |
| 7 | The Works of Margharita Karapanou: Literature as a Technology of Self-Formation | 184 |
| 8 | Men Are Not Always What They Seem: From Sexual Modernization toward Sexual Modernity | 213 |
| Epilogue: After the Present | 242 |
| Notes | 249 |
| Bibliography | 271 |
| Index | 289 |
