{"id":13431,"date":"2026-03-16T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/?p=13431"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:46:01","slug":"presentation-of-the-book-the-crisis-of-politics-by-stefanos-dimitriou-presented-by-maria-repousi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/presentation-of-the-book-the-crisis-of-politics-by-stefanos-dimitriou-presented-by-maria-repousi\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation of the Book: The Crisis of Politics by Stefanos Dimitriou Presented by Maria Repousi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the presentation of the book <strong><em>The Crisis of Politics<\/em><\/strong> by <strong>Stefanos Dimitriou<\/strong> (Polis Publications), held on <strong>13 March at the Journalists\u2019 Union of Athens (ESIEA)<\/strong>, <strong>Maria Repousi<\/strong>, historian and Director of the <strong>Nikos Poulantzas Institute<\/strong>, highlighted the key questions the book raises regarding the functioning of democracy today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her remarks, she focused in particular on the <strong>weakening of politics in relation to market forces<\/strong>, the <strong>growing distance between citizens and the political system<\/strong>, and the <strong>challenges facing the Left in a period marked by profound social and economic transformations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the full speech below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Presentation-of-the-Book-2.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Presentation of the Book (2).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-5cd0d711-49e3-40fa-b99a-c75223e8182d\" href=\"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Presentation-of-the-Book-2.pdf\">Presentation of the Book (2)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Presentation-of-the-Book-2.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-5cd0d711-49e3-40fa-b99a-c75223e8182d\">\u039b\u03ae\u03c8\u03b7<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the presentation of the book The Crisis of Politics by Stefanos Dimitriou (Polis Publications), held on 13 March at the Journalists\u2019 Union of Athens (ESIEA), Maria Repousi, historian and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[526,4,513],"tags":[569,568],"class_list":["post-13431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-main-thematiki-6-democracy","category-uncategorized-el","category-main-thematiki-6-democrasy-institution","tag-bookpresentation","tag-thecrisisofpolitics","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13436,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13431\/revisions\/13436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poulantzas.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}