088615
London
2018
14×21,5
meki
252
engleski
Price: 18,00 EUR
A critical study by Croatian-American political scientist, translator and cultural pessimist Tomislav Sunić. The book analyzes American society, its global impact and the profound cultural changes brought about by the postmodern era. Sunić analyzes how the American model of society, based on a hyper-consumer mentality and mass culture, is being exported and imposed on the entire world. He argues that "Homo Americanus" (modern American man, but also the global individual shaped by that culture) lives in a permanent present, cut off from tradition, roots and historical memory. Society is not governed by lofty ideals, but by economic calculation, profit and technocratic efficiency that turn citizens into mere consumers. The book describes the postmodern era as a period in which absolute truths disappear, and social space is flooded with relativism, political correctness and the simulation of reality. Sunić writes from a perspective close to the European "New Right" (Nouvelle Droite), using authors such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and Carl Schmitt to deconstruct liberal democracy.
