Call for Submissions!

e-Epanastasi is seeking submissions for Plethon, a demo issue of a printed Pan-Hellenic journal we hope to regularly produce in the near future. The journal is named in honor of Georgios “Plethon” Gemistos, a 15^th century Greek scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy. It is thanks to Plethon that Plato’s teachings were re-introduced to Western Europe. Submissions open January 19 and close March 1^st, 2016.

A Hellenic awakening: “Kosmotheasis” the root of our Crisis

Since 2008, many within Greece, and throughout its Diaspora have attempted to explain the causes of the devastating Depression, which has ravaged the country. However, few have ever attempted to dig deeper than the superficial causes for the partial collapse of the Greek system, which in retrospect, seemed destined to fail from its inception.

Instead, what most mainstream voices seem to do is pardon those responsible for the current situation, and provide weak solutions for merely the economic angle of the crisis. Always failing to understand that the crisis in Greece is more than simply an economic depression, but part of a much larger social crisis within Greek society.

The Neo-Shu’ubiyya: is it Hellenism’s turn?

Throughout the West, we are fed the opinion that the recent wave of demonstrations and revolutions across the Middle East constitute an “Arab Spring”, but just how “Arab” is it? What if, this false perception was the byproduct of a school of thought, which was witnessing its own demise as a result of this wave of social unrest? What if, the paradigm shift unfolding before the international stage was both a winter and a spring?

A Brief look at Anti-Hellenism in the United States, Part I

The story of Anti-Hellenism in the United States is one that is heavily intertwined with the country’s history of Nativism and Nordic Supremacy. It is a tale which begins in the early 20th century as an influx of immigrants began to come to the country from Southern and Eastern Europe. This increase in new immigrants led to some within America’s elite, specifically lawyers and academics, to begin expounding theories of scientific racism, which eventually resulted in the rise of Nativist organizations and the birth of an American Eugenics movement ^[1].