The Barbarian temperament
Subtitle: toward a postmodern critical theory
By: Stjepan G. Meštrović
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxfordshire, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Postmodernism; Social aspects; Modern Civilization; Regression (Civilization); Postmodernisme; Aspect social; Civilisation; Décadence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. How to comprehend barbarism in the midst of enlightenment; title: 2. Methodological and empirical issues in perceiving modern barbarism; title: 3. Barbarism and the idea of progress; title: 4. Finding a ground for discourse; title: 5. Choosing philosophical trajectories regarding barbarism; title: 6. Deconstructing the problem of social order; title: 7. Moving beyond hermeneutics; title: 8. Reconstructing homo duplex; title: 9. Civilized barbarism : the nature of psychic wounds; title: 10. Barbarism and human agency; title: 11. Conclusions.