1st Edition
The Balkanization of the West The Confluence of Postmodernism and Postcommunism
By Stjepan Mestrovic
Copyright 1994
240 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Passionate, vigorous and uncompromising this book takes the lid off the confused Western response to the Balkan war. The author raises a series of timely and acute questions about the future of postmodernism and postcommunism. The author claims that the Balkan war has de-railed the movement for unification in Europe. The Islamic world has seen that the West is quite willing to bomb Muslim targets,... Read more
1 From the postmodern culture of fun to the grim realities of Postcommunism 2 Still hunting Nazis, and losing reality 3 Unwelcome alternatives 4 The postmodernist as voyeur 5 The end of morality? 6 What went wrong with the Enlightenment project? 7 What would a genuine post-Marxism be like? 8 Conclusions
Biography
Stjepan Meštrovi? is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University.
`The Balkanization of the West is academia at its most provocative and committed, an attempt to pull postmodernism out of theoretical abstraction and invest it with the beginnings of political action.' - Langauge Intl
