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The Deepening Darkness - Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (Hardcover)
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The Deepening Darkness - Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future (Hardcover)
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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. The 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. Democratic resistance in
religion, psychology, the arts, and politics rests on free voices
challenging patriarchal restrictions on the love of equals. In
addition to examining why we are at war, 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.
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