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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778878903321

Autore

Mestrovic Stjepan Gabriel

Titolo

The Balkanization of the West : the confluence of postmodernism and postcommunism / / Stjepan G. Mestrovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-88259-9

1-134-88260-2

1-280-06390-4

9786610063901

0-203-34464-2

0-415-24577-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Disciplina

303.6

303.6094

940.55/9

Soggetti

Post-communism

Postmodernism - Social aspects

World politics - 1989-

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

From the postmodern culture of fun to the grim realities of postcommunism; Still hunting Nazis, and losing reality; Unwelcome alternatives; The postmodernist as voyeur; The end of morality?; What went wrong with the Enlightenment project?; What would a genuine post-Marxism be like?; Conclusions; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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, from Iraq to



Somalia, but absolutely unwilling to wage a `just war' to save the Bosnian Muslims. He concludes that the Balkan war is a key catalyst in the unravelling of the West.