What is the spiritual identity of modern Greek existence and what are its prospects? Does the popular culture and the depths of the metaphysical tradition of the land still resonate within today’s psyche? How does the wandering and homeless modern Greek participate, at the same time, in the fate of the contemporary, post-traditional Western world?

Following the traces of the central character in the novel trilogy by Giannis Kiourtsakis, titled 'The Same and the Other', the four authors of this small volume raise once again the urgent question of whether our traumatic relationship with the past and simultaneously our pending relationship with the present could perhaps lead to an authentic relationship with the future.

Perhaps, therefore, the steps of loss can open a path of creativity and contribution - perhaps at the very core of the self lies another that illuminates everything differently.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]