Discontents (eBook, PDF)

Postmodern and Postcommunist
Redaktion: Hollander, Paul

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What ails people at the present time in Western and especially American society is an inexhaustible subject

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351325394
• Artikelnr.: 50923726

Autorenporträt

Paul Hollander

Inhaltsangabe

1: American Society and the Discontents of Postmodernity
1: Godfather II: The New American Tragedy
2: American Sociology and the Collapse of Communism
3: "Imagined Tyranny"? Political Correctness Reconsidered
4: The Attack on Science and Reason
5: Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences: A Critique of "Affirmative Action"
6: Reassessing the Adversary Culture
7: The Durable Significance of the Political Pilgrimages
8: Nonconformist Intellectuals Today
9: The Pursuit of Identity, Community and Social Justice: The Cult of Victimhood Revisited
10: Saving Sociology?
11: Marxism and Western Intellectuals in the Postcommunist Era
12: Intellectuals and the War in Kosovo
13: Acknowledgements: Appearance and Reality in a Ritual of Academic Life
2: Soviet Communism: Its Fall and Aftermath
14: The Mystery of the Transformation of Communist Systems
15: Why Communism Collapsed in Eastern Europe
16: Moral Responses to the Great Mass Murders of Our Century
17: Digesting the Collapse of Communism: Responses of Western Intellectuals
18: Revisiting "The Banality of Evil": Political Violence in Communist Systems
19: Growing Up in Communist Hungary
20: Thoughts on Travel in Russia
21: Western Views on Communism: Judgments and Misjudgments
22: Westernization and Anti-Americanism in Post-Communist Societies
23: The Cult of Personality in Communist States 1
34: The Crimes of Communism
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