The Failure of Modern Civilization and the Struggle for a «Deep» Alternative: On «Critical Theory of Patriarchy» as a New Paradigm

by Claudia von Werlhof and Mathias Behmann

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631615523
• ISBN13: 9783631615522
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.