The Barbarian Temperament: Towards a Postmodern Critical Theory

✍ Scribed by Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović; Stjepan Mestrovic

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 346
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This scintillating book by one of the most interesting young sociologists currently working in the USA is a provocative and timely contribution to the debate on civilization, modernity and postmodernity. The author argues that modernity never jettisoned barbarism. Instead barbarism was repackaged in modern and postmodern traditions and cultures.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
1 How to comprehend barbarism in the midst of enlightenment
2 Methodological and empirical issues in perceiving modern barbarism
3 Barbarism and the idea of progress
4 Finding a ground for discourse
5 Choosing philosophical trajectories regarding barbarism
6 Deconstructing the problem of social order
7 Moving beyond hermeneutics
8 Reconstructing homo duplex
9 Civilized barbarism: the nature of psychic wounds
10 Barbarism and human agency
11 Conclusions
Notes
References
Name index
Subject index

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