The Balkanization of the West : the confluence of postmodernism and postcommunism / Stjepan G. Mestrovi�c.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 041524577X
- 9780415245777
- 9780203344644
- 0203344642
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Organisation du trait�e de l'Atlantique Nord
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Postmodernism -- Social aspects
- Post-communism
- World politics -- 1989-
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995
- Postmodernisme -- Aspect social
- Postcommunisme
- Politique mondiale -- 1989-
- Guerre dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, 1991-1995
- HISTORY
- Post-communism
- Postmodernism -- Social aspects
- World politics
- Yugoslav War (1991-1995)
- Since 1989
- Conflict
- Europe
- 940.55/9 20
- HM73 .M478 1994eb
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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