The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future
Why is America again unjustly at war? Why is its politics distorted by wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage? Why is anti-Semitism still so powerfully resurgent? Such contradictions within democracies arise from a patriarchal psychology still alive in our personal and political lives in tension with the equal voice that is the basis of democracy. This book joins a psychological approach with a political-theoretical one that traces both this psychology (based on loss in intimate life) and resistance to it (based on the love of equals) to the Roman Republic and Empire and to three Latin masterpieces: Virgil's Aeneid, Apuleius's The Golden Ass, and Augustine's Confessions. In addition, this book explains many other aspects of our present situation including why movements of ethical resistance are often accompanied by a freeing of sexuality and why we are witnessing an aggressive fundamentalism at home and abroad.
339 pages, 11 editions
English edition · First published 2009 by Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9780511462030
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- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9780511462030 This page
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2014 · ISBN 9781107672338
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9780511463570
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9786611982522
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9780511552045
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9780511464362
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9781107202290
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9781281982520
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9780511462788
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9780521898980
- The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future · Cambridge University Press · 2009 · ISBN 9780511465109
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