| The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a «Deep» Alternative: On «Critical Theory of Patriarchy» as a New Paradigm Contributor(s): Von Werlhof, Claudia (Editor), Von Werlhof, Claudia (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631615523 ISBN-13: 9783631615522 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $58.71 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 300.918 |
| LCCN: 2011282997 |
| Series: Beitraege Zur Dissidenz |
| Physical Information: 304 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Western civilization is the Utopia of a better and higher life on Earth. The globalization of neo-liberalism proves that this project has failed. The paradigm of Critical Theory of Patriarchy explains this failure and discusses alternatives. By confronting the central civilizations in history, the egalitarian, life-oriented matriarchal one, and the hierarchical, nature and life dominating, hostile patriarchal one, we see that 5000 years of patriarchy have replaced matriarchies and nature itself by a progressive counter-world of capital . This transformation characterizes capitalist patriarchy including socialism . Its demise is due to the alchemical destruction of the world's resources, thought of, theologically legitimized and fetishized as creation . This violence is not recognized. Elites have, instead, begun with a new military alchemy , treating the whole Planet as weapon of mass destruction. Hence, the Planetary Movement for Mother Earth . |
