The Man Problem (eBook)

Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture

Ross Honeywill (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2015
XVIII, 217 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-55169-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book reveals destructive masculinity as the social, political, and economic problem of our age. It not only diagnoses destructive masculinity, but also reveals a possible way forward a prognosis for society to surpass the annihilative potential that resides in masculinity.

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In The Man Problem, Ross Honeywill posits that the potential for evil in all men is the social, political, and economic problem of our age. Drawing on the work of social critics and theorists including Zygmunt Bauman, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Baudrillard, Slavoj Zizek, and others, the book traces destructive masculinity through cultural texts, social systems, and everyday life practices. Using the lens of social theory, social philosophy, feminist cultural studies, and sociology, The Man Problem explores the legacy of the Enlightenment as a context for a social world constructed by men (in modernity), deconstructed (in postmodernity) and reconstructed (in the liquid present). This book investigates the outlines of the patriarchy and why the men who legitimate it behave the way they do. Despite the troubled and troubling legacy of masculinity, Honeywill reveals an alternative path forward.

Autor

Ross Honeywill is an internationally recognized social theorist and researcher. His books have been published on three continents. Associate Professor (adjunct) at the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, Australia, he has a PhD from the University of Tasmania. Applying value theory to social research for more than twenty years, he is best known for his work in Desire Economics and the NEO population classification. His current research is on social intelligence, feminist cultural studies, and gender equity.

Inhalt

PART I: MODERNITY: ITS BIRTH AND DEATH1:1 The Politics of Exclusion: Enlightenment Masculinity 1:2 God does not Play Dice: Modernity, a Masculine Enterprise 1:3 Tyrant or Hangman: The Evil of Ordinary Men 1:4 Two Genocides: The Sins of Modernity 1:5 End of Modernity: The Radical Dimension of NormalityPART II: OEDIPAL SCHISM: WHENCE DESTRUCTIVE MASCULINITY2:1 Being Human: Biological Determinism2:2 Gender: Sex and Gender… and the Psyche 2:3 Difference and Discrimination: Men Subjugating Women 2:4 Savage Torpor: Moral Blindness2:5 Oedipal Schism: The Origin of Destructive Masculinity2:6 Rape: Men Choosing Emptiness PART III: POSTMODERNITY: ITS BIRTH AND DEATH3:1 Certitude and Contingency: A Segue to Postmodernity 3:2 Denial of Legitimacy: The Destructive Beast in Postmodernity3:3 Enabling Fictions: Postmodernism Thrives as Postmodernity Falters 3:4 End of Postmodernity: The Threat to Mother EarthPART IV: THE LIQUID PRESENT4:1 After Postmodernity: The Liquid Present 4:2 Knowledge Culture + Monoculture: A new Epistemology 4:3 The One-Gendered State: Women Reinventing Themselves4:4 Masculinities: Beyond Men, Beyond Help? 4:5 The Moral Phene: Not the Selfish Gene4:6 Now I am Become Death: Men as the Solution Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 217 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Bauman • Beauvoir • Domestic violence • Gender • Genocide • Masculinities • Modernity • Morality • Postmodernism • Postmodernity • Rape • Social Intelligence • unearned privilege • Violence • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-137-55169-0 / 1137551690
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-55169-6 / 9781137551696