International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society Volume 8, Number 1 Fall 1994 Editors’ Note 3 I Civilization, Culture and Capitalism in the Work of Thorstein Veblen Thorstein Veblen and Contemporary Civilization Gerald E. Levy Veblen’s “Post-Modernist” Economics Solidelle Fortier Wasser II Institutional Pressures and the Subversion of Psychiatry The Impact of Outside Agencies on Institutional Mental Health Care Dana M. Webber Ill Episteme and Entropy at the Fin de Siecle Beyond the Authoritarian Personality: Adorno’s Demon and Its Liberation Franco Ferrarotti Social Perspectives in Germany at the Turn of the Millennium Horst J. Helle The Disintegration of Yugoslavia: Twilight of the Idols Ales Debeljak The Epistemic Turn: Critical Sociology and the “Generation of ’68” John J. Cerullo Re-enchanting the World: Some Reflections on Postmodernism Robert Jackall About the Authors International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society Volume 8, Number 4 Summer 1995 Editors’ Note 523 I The Emerging European Order: Challenges to Its Structure Market, Religion and Nationalism: Fundamentalisms in the New European Order Adam Michnik National Identities Confronting European Integration Antonio V. Menéndez-Alarcén II Tradition, Governance and Human Rights in Islam Faltering Legitimacy: The Ruling Clerics and Civil Society in Contemporary Iran Ali Banuazizi The Islamic Ethos and the Spirit of Humanism Amyn B. Sajoo Ill Stanford M. Lyman’s Sociology of Race and Ethnic Relations: Conundrums of Color and Culture Peter Kivisto About the Authors