Civil wars
Subtitle: from L.A. to Bosnia
By: Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781565842083
Subjects: Social conflict.; World politics -- 20th century.; Political sociology.; CIVIL WAR; MIGRATION; EUROPE
Description: In Civil Wars, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world, from America's racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the former Yugoslavia. He argues that previous approaches to class or generational conflict have failed us, and that we are now confronted with an "autism of violence": a tendency toward self-destruction and collective madness.--Publisher.
Table of contents: title: Civil War --; title: Europe in ruins --; title: Great migration.