In this contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticises the major themes of Giddens work - particularly the concept of high modern... » 

In this contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticises the major themes of Giddens work - particularly the concept of high modernity as oppossed to postmodernity and his attempted construction of a synthetic tradition based on human agency and structure. «