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The Balkanization of the West : the confluence of postmodernism and postcommunism / Stjepan G. Mestrovi�c.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 041524577X
  • 9780415245777
  • 9780203344644
  • 0203344642
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Balkanization of the West.DDC classification:
  • 940.55/9 20
LOC classification:
  • HM73 .M478 1994eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and indexes.

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.

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.

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