Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia

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In Civil Wars Hans Magnus Enzensberger Germanys most astute literary and political critic chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism loyalty and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world from Americas racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the former Yugoslavia. He argues that previous approaches to class or generational conflict have failed us and that we are now confronted with an "autism of violence": a tendency toward self-destruction and collective madness.