This book takes the lid off the confused Western response to the Balkan war. The author raises a series of timely and acute questions about the future of postmodernism and postcommunism.
Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of Giddens' work - the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure.
Introducing a term to the sociological lexicon: 'postemotionalism', the author argues that the focus of post modernism has been on knowledge and information, and he demonstrates how the emotions in mass industrial societies have been neglected to devastating effect.