pt. I. The fall of socialism ... 1. The fantasy structure of war: the case of Bosnia. 2. The post-socialist moral majority. 3. 'Normalization' in the socialist regime. 4. The struggle for hegemony in the former Yugoslavia -- pt. II. ... and its implications for the theory of ideology. 5. Fantasy as the limit of distributive justice. 6. Legitimizing violence. 7. Crime as a mode of subjectivization. 8. Why is a woman a symptom of rights?
Summary
The Spoils of Freedom examines the rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies in post-socialist Eastern Europe. This provocative study asks what has become of the notions of democracy and human rights
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-162) and index