Professor Claudia von Werlhof is professor emerita of Women’s Studies, University of Innsbruk, Austria. She says capitalism is the latest phase of an age-old patriarchal dream of replacing dependency on women and nature with an artificial world. This failed fantasy feeds both gnostic religion and the thirst for war. The only solution, she says, is that Men have to realize that life is here, they are here, they belong to life. Unlearning Patriarchy – War and the dream of an artificial world
Professor Claudia von Werlhof is professor emerita of Women’s Studies, University of Innsbruk, Austria. She says capitalism is the latest phase of an age-old patriarchal dream of replacing dependency on women and nature with an artificial world. This failed fantasy feeds both gnostic religion and the thirst for war. The only solution, she says, is that Men have to realize that life is here, they are here, they belong to life.