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Discontents - Postmodern and Postcommunist (Paperback)
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What ails people at the present time in Western and especially
American society is an inexhaustible subject. Discussion of these
discontents in the United States in the last decade of the
twentieth century leads to an obvious question: How much and what
kind of discontents are possible in a society that has experienced
over a decade of economic growth, close to full employment, hardly
any inflation, falling crime rates, declining teenage pregnancies,
and other good things? Is there anything to worry about in a
country that has become the undisputed superpower of the world and
no longer faces another hostile superpower such as the Soviet Union
used to be? Paul Hollander wrestles with these and other questions
in seeking to understand conditions and developments within
American culture and society in the context of their relationship
to political systems, movements and ideas critical of the United
States and Western values. Hollander examines disparate phenomena,
such as the O.J. Simpson case, the banning of West Side Story in
Amherst, Massachusetts, the popularity and exposu of Rigoberta
Menchu, and the appeal of sports utility vehicles, which shed light
on the major themes of the volume. Topics include conflicts among
American intellectuals (including disputes over the Kosovo
intervention), the impact of postmodernism on higher education, the
persisting appeal of victimhood in American society, the flaws of
American sociology, academic specialists' failure to anticipate the
collapse of the Soviet Union, and the new anti-Americanism in
postcommunist societies. Among topics of historical interest are a
survey of Western judgments and misjudgments of the communist
systems; examination of the relative neglect of political violence
in communist states, and analysis of officially enforced,
secular-religious cult of communist rulers. Many of these writings
are linked to the author's longstanding interest in why people
accept or reject particular political systems and in the
contradictory human needs and desires which condition and limit the
pursuit of social and political ends. Sociologists, political
scientists, and the general reader will find this book of great
interest.
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