(P/B) HABITS OF THE BALKAN HEART
SOCIAL CHARACTER AND THE FALL OF COMMUNISM
MESTROVIC G. STJEPAN, GORETA MIROSLAVΚωδ. Πολιτείας: 4641-0001
Παρουσίαση
When Communism fell in Eastern Europe in 1989, euphoria spread with the expectation of liberal democracy and a New World Order. But in what had been Yugoslavia, a brutal war broke out and giddy optimism gave way to brutality and perplexed despair.Sociologist Stjepan Mestrovic, writing with Slaven Letica and Miroslav Goreta and drawing on theories of social character propounded by such thinkers as de Tocqueville, Veblen, and Bellah, sheds new light on the conflicts in the Balkans. The authors demonstrate that ancient ethnic, social, and nationalistic tendencies - "habits of the heart"-of the various people of the Balkans have taken precedence over pressures for democracy in the political and cultural vacuum left by the end of Communism in the region. If democracy is to be achieved in post-Communist East Europe, the authors argue, it must be based on the "good" habits of the heart that coexist there with "bad" or authoritarian social character. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
Preface1. The Collapse of Communism and Its Cultural Nemesis
2. The Fifth Yugoslavia and the New World Order
3. The Aristocratic Temperament in the Balkans
4. Veblen and Spengler on Barbarism within Modernity
5. Explaining War in the Land of Medjugorje
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
Index
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