The Barbarian Temperament

Stjepan G. Meštrović

DO WE BASK IN THE ILLUSION OF BEING CIVILIZED?
ARE NOT HUMANS THE MOST VIOLENT AND CRUEL BEINGS THATEVER WALKED THE EARTH?

“It is a significant contribution to the literature on postmodernist theory and the relationship of that body of contemporary theory to ´the lost classics’.”
Professor Barry Glassner, Department of Sociology), University of Southern California

This scintillating book by one of the most interesting young sociologists currently working in the USA is a provocative and timely contribution to the debate on civilization, modernity and postmodernity. The author argues that modernity never jettisoned barbarism. Instead barbarism was repackaged in modern and postmodern traditions and cultures.

Stjepan G. Meštrović is Professor of Sociology at Texas A & M University.