Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
This text argues that the media have reduced the world to a collective voyeur passively watching, monitoring, and observing crimes against humanity in former Yugoslavia. The Balkan war has produced the Balkanization of the West with the Western powers seemingly paralyzed by internecine warfare |
Analysis |
Conflict |
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Europe |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and indexes |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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SUBJECT |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization fast |
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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Post-communism.
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World politics -- 1989-
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
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HISTORY.
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Post-communism
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects
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World politics
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
041524577X |
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9780415245777 |
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9780203344644 |
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0203344642 |
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