The Man Problem: Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture

PART I: MODERNITY: ITS BIRTH AND DEATH
1:1 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 Normality
PART II: OEDIPAL SCHISM: WHENCE DESTRUCTIVE MASCULINITY
2:1 Being Human: Biological Determinism
2:2 Gender: Sex and Gender... and the Psyche
2:3 Difference and Discrimination: Men Subjugating Women
2:4 Savage Torpor: Moral Blindness
2:5 Oedipal Schism: The Origin of Destructive Masculinity
2:6 Rape: Men Choosing Emptiness
PART III: POSTMODERNITY: ITS BIRTH AND DEATH
3:1 Certitude and Contingency: A Segue to Postmodernity
3:2 Denial of Legitimacy: The Destructive Beast in Postmodernity
3:3 Enabling Fictions: Postmodernism Thrives as Postmodernity Falters
3:4 End of Postmodernity: The Threat to Mother Earth
PART IV: THE LIQUID PRESENT
4:1 After Postmodernity: The Liquid Present
4:2 Knowledge Culture + Monoculture: A new Epistemology
4:3 The One-Gendered State: Women Reinventing Themselves
4:4 Masculinities: Beyond Men, Beyond Help?
4:5 The Moral Phene: Not the Selfish Gene
4:6 Now I am Become Death: Men as the Solution
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