Postmortem Report
Postmortem Report: Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity er en bok skrevet av den kroatiske aktivisten, polemikeren og akademikeren Tomislav Sunic. Boken som kom ut i 2010 er en samling med artikler inndelt etter emne og skrevet av Sunic, artiklene er hentet fra mange ulike publikasjoner, blant annet The Occidental Quarterly.
Bokens forord er skrevet av professor Kevin MacDonald.
Fra bokens bakside
"Tomislav Sunic is one of the leading scholars and exponents of the European New Right. A prolific writer and accomplished linguist in Croatian, English, French, and German, his thought synthesizes the ideas of Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt, Vilfredo Pareto, and Alain de Benoist, among others, exhibiting an elitist, neo-pagan, traditionalist sensibility. A number of themes have emerged in his cultural criticism: religion, cultural pessimism, race and the Third Reich, liberalism and democracy, and multiculturalism and communism. This book collects Dr. Sunic's best essays of the past decade, treating topics that relate to these themes. From the vantage point of a European observer who has experienced the pathology of liberalism and communism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Dr. Sunic offers incisive insights into Western and post-communist societies and culture. Always erudite and at times humorous, this highly readable postmortem report on the death of the West offers a refreshing, alternative perspective to what is usually found in the cavaderous Freudo-Marxian scholasticism that rots in the dank catacombs of postmodern academia."
Innholdsfortegnelse
- Foreword • vii
- Part I: Religion
- Marx, Moses and the Pagans in the Secular City • 3
- Monotheism vs. Polytheism • 20
- Part II: Cultural Pessimism
- History and Decadence: Spengler's Cultural Pessimism Today • 31
- "Gemainschaft and Gesellschaft": A Sociological View of the Decay of Modern Society (Alain de Benoist and Tomislav Sunic) • 41
- Emile Cioran and the Culture of Death • 48
- The Right Stuff (Drugs and Democracy) • 58
- Part III: Race / The Third Reich
- The Beauty and the Beast: Race and Racism in Europe • 65
- Art in the Third Reich: 1933-1945 • 88
- The Destruction of the Ethnic Germans and German Prisoners of War in Yugoslavia, 1945-1953 • 95
- Part IV: Liberalism and Democracy
- Democracy Revisited: The Ancients and the Moderns • 105
- Liberalism or Democracy? Carl Schmitt and Apolitical Democracy • 116
- The Liberal Double-Talk and Its Lexical Consequences • 126
- Historical Dynamics of Liberalism: From Total Market to Total State • 134
- Part V: Multiculturalism and Communism
- America in the Eyes of Eastern Europe • 149
- The Decline and Splendor of Nationalism • 157
- Woodrow Wilson's Defeat in Yugoslavia: The End of a Multicultural Utopia • 165
- A Global Village or the Rights of the Peoples? • 173
- Endnotes • 181
- Index • 195
