The Balkanization of the West
Subtitle: The Confluence of Postmodernism and Postcommunism
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 3, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780415087551
First sentence: The collapse of communism at the present fin de siecle coincided with widespread interest among intellectuals in a phenomenon known as postmodernism, itself a confluence of apocalyptic themes found in the previous fin de siecle (Mestrovic 1991) and the fun-culture uncovered by David Riesman in his Lonely Crowd (1950).