:historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives
/ Luigi Zoja
314 pages
: illustrations ; 24 cm
Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).
GMD: electronic resource.
e
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prehistory -- The mammals: the animals' retreat from fatherhood -- The sexuality of the great apes -- The prehistoric horizon of the father -- The paternal revolution -- Lucy grows -- Myth and the classical age -- Patriarchy and matriarchy -- The historic horizon of the father -- The mythic origins of the father -- Hector -- Ulysses -- The myth of the father as the sole progenitor -- Aeneas -- Towards modern times and decadence -- From the Roman father, to the Son, to the French Revolution -- From the French Revolution to the Industrial Revolution -- The disenchantment of war -- The reversal of the public father -- The voyage of the Joads -- The father today -- The rarefaction of the father -- The abdication of the father: in flight toward the past -- The abdication of the father: in flight toward the future -- The disappearance of elevation -- The breadwinner -- The search for the father.