The Man Problem Destructive Masculinity in Western Culture [Hardcover]

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 }i~ek, 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.

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 forwarda prognosis for society to surpass the annihilative potential that resides in masculinity.

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 l³ƒ