The volume "Ithaca and Citizenship" includes texts from the 1970s and early 1980s. "The State of the New Theologian" is printed for the third time, while the only unfinished work is the "Self-Commentary". The others have been published and long since sold out, circulating at times in photocopies from hand to hand.

The contents of the book primarily have an interpretive character. In the cases of Heraclitus, Homer, or the Apostle Thomas, it involves work on texts; in the case of the New Theologian, the interpretive approach has greater ambitions and a broader historical horizon: the Byzantine origins of modern Hellenism are explored, and certain constitutive spiritual problems are discussed.

This essay has a declarative quality, hence the definitive deviation of style, the disparity, I would say, with the adjacent and contemporaneous texts. A passion for form runs through its phrases, without a corresponding insistence on the details. The best that one can offer to a tradition is not to defend it unconditionally but to face it head-on.