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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.

Attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim's sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism. This title examines how Durkheim's ideas can be applied to current social issues. It is suitable for readers of sociology, as well as the related disciplines of philosophy, psychology, cultural studies and history.

Introducing a term to the sociological lexicon: 'postemotionalism', the author argues that the focus of postmodernism has been on knowledge and information, and he demonstrates how the emotions in mass industrial societies have been neglected to devastating effect.

Applying theories of 'post-emotionalism' to the issue of 'the bully' as a social type, this book includes case studies that focus on bullying and hazing, examined by the case of an American solider who committed suicide in Afghanistan, torture at Abu Ghraib, and the murder of a 23-year-old African-American inmate in a Southern state prison.

In this contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticises the major themes of Giddens work - particularly the concept of "high modernity" as oppossed to "postmodernity" and his attempted construction of a "synthetic" tradition based on human agency and structure.