The texts collected in this volume deal theoretically with the issue of the nation and national identity, from the perspective of history, sociology, and political science. The purpose of the book is to shed light on the intense ideological conflict surrounding the national issue in Greece and to respond to the dominant "deconstructive" theories that are currently emerging from many universities and media outlets.

According to the school of thought of ethno-deconstructionism, nations are recent "artificial constructions" created by the state and intellectuals. Especially in the case of Greece, this school targets the "continuity" of the Greek nation, which it views as an invention of the 19th century... History itself is approached with a progressive perception, from which the so-called "grand narratives" are absent, resulting in its fragmentation into disconnected and fragmentary incidents.

The deconstruction of national identity is part of a broader theoretical trend (cultural theory) that seeks absolute uniformity on a global level: the dissolution of every collective identity - national, cultural, social - and every cohesive bond that has always constituted human societies. The various nations and distinct cultures must give way to a fluid mass of individuals, without collective points of reference, without place, tradition, history - individuals without a common past, and therefore without a common future.

Although these views are minority in Greek society, they have become dominant in Greek universities and the academic establishment, at least since the 1990s, while there have been ongoing efforts to introduce them into secondary and lower education.

Obviously, the promotion of these views by official ideological mechanisms - domestic and international - corresponds to the ideological imperatives of "globalization", which, in order to establish its economic and political dominance, promotes the corresponding ideological stereotypes.