The Deepening Darkness

Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future

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ID23802496
AuthorsCarol Gilligan (0000-0001-7554-1563, New York University), David A J Richards, David Richards (0000-0001-6224-165X, New York University)
Year2008
Publication date2008-11-10
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueDeepening Darkness (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511552045
OpenAlexW2891890148
ISBN9780511552045
LanguageEN
Citations received18

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.

Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Empire · Human sexuality · Literature · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies

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