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Author Meštrović, Stjepan Gabriel.

Title The Balkanization of the West : the confluence of postmodernism and postcommunism / Stjepan G. Mestrović
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994

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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
Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject North Atlantic Treaty Organization
SUBJECT North Atlantic Treaty Organization fast
Subject Postmodernism -- Social aspects
Post-communism.
World politics -- 1989-
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.
HISTORY.
Post-communism
Postmodernism -- Social aspects
World politics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 041524577X
9780415245777
9780203344644
0203344642