Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 From the postmodern culture of fun to the grim realities of postcommunism -- FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE ISLAMIC THREAT? -- GOOD VERSUS BAD NATIONALISM -- THE NEW INTOLERANCE OF ORGANIZED TOLERANCE -- CONTRADICTIONS AND INCONSISTENCIES IN THE POSTMODERN DISCOURSE -- THE CULTURAL DECLINE OF CULTURAL EXPLANATIONS -- COPING WITH THE RETURN OF HISTORY -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 2 Still hunting Nazis, and losing reality -- NEVER AGAIN, EXCEPT FOR BOSNIA -- THE BERLIN WALL IN TEXAS -- THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AS THE PARADIGM FOR-WHAT? -- CROATIA AS THE SCAPEGOAT FOR EUROPE'S NAZIPAST -- SERBO-NAZISM, THEN AND NOW? -- SEARCHING FOR THE PERFECT VICTIM -- Chapter 3 Unwelcome alternatives -- ANTI-MODERN OR AFTER MODERNITY? -- THE EAST-WEST DICHOTOMY -- IS MODERNITY A CULTURAL TRADITION OR AN ANTI-CULTURAL IMPOSSIBILITY? -- GOOD VERSUS BAD IN CULTURES -- THEIR NARCISSISM AND OURS -- Chapter 4 The postmodernist as voyeur -- BLASE VOYEURISM -- WHAT CONSTITUTES A REAL WAR? -- DOING SOMETHING -- RAPE AS METAPHOR AND REALITY IN THE BALKANS -- ADDING INSULT TO INJURY -- FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AS FICTION -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 5 The end of morality? -- THE CASE OF YUGOSLAVIA'S BREAKAWAY REPUBLICS -- WHAT WAS REALLY AT STAKE? -- SERBIAN ACTIONS AS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY -- THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF THE WEST'S IMPOTENCE -- THE FATE OF AMERICA'S ROLE AS LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION -- DOES THE WORLD HAVE A COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS? -- IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 6 What went wrong with the Enlightenment project? -- BACK TO HISTORICAL EXPLANATIONS -- HABITS OF THE HEART -- IN WHAT WAYS IS CAPITALISM VICTORIOUS? -- THE FALL OF COMMUNISM -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 7 What would a genuine post-Marxism be like? -- ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AS CIVIC RELIGIONS.

APPREHENDING DURKHEIM'S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THEORY IN THE POSTMODERNIST ERA -- WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE DIVISION OF LABOR? -- THE SPIRIT OF CASTE DESPITE MODERNITY -- THE DURKHEIMIAN ALTERNATIVE TO MARXISM -- Chapter 8 Conclusions -- REPEATING HISTORY'S MISTAKES -- TERROR IN THE WEST -- SCENARIOS FOR THE FUTURE -- IMPLICATIONS -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.