Mestrovic, Stjepan G.

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MESTROVIC, Stjepan G.

MESTROVIC, Stjepan G. American (born Croatia), b. 1955. Genres: International relations/Current affairs, Sociology. Career: Texas A&M University, College Station, professor of sociology, 1990-. Publications: Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology, 1988; The Coming Fin de Siecle: An Application of Durkheim's Sociology to Modernity and Post- modernity, 1991; Durkheim and Postmodern Culture, 1992; The Road from Paradise: The Possibility of Democracy in Eastern Europe, 1993; Habits of the Balkan Heart: Social Character and the Fall of Communism, 1993; The Barbarian Temperament: Towards a Postmodern Critical Theory, 1993; The Balkanization of the West: The Confluence of Postmodernism with Postcommunism, 1994; Genocide after Emotion: The Postemotional Balkan War, 1996; (ed. with T. Cushman) This Time We Knew: Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia, 1996; The Conceit of Innocence: How the Conscience of the West Was Lost in the War against Bosnia, 1997; Postemotional Society, 1997; Anthony Giddens: The Last Modernist, 1998. Address: Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, U.S.A. On- line address: [email protected]

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