Family Politics The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought

Name: Family Politics The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought
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ISBN: 9781602584792

ISBN-10: 1602584796

ISBN-13: 9781602584792

Edition: 2012

Authors: Scott Yenor

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With crisp prose and intellectual fairness,Family Politicstraces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern world. What is family? What is marriage? In an effort to address contemporary society's disputes over the meanings of these human social institutions, Scott Yenor carefully examines a roster of major and unexpected modern political philosophers--from Locke and Rousseau to Hegel and Marx to Freud and Beauvoir. He lucidly presents how these individuals developed an understanding of family in order to advance their goals of political and social reform. Through this exploration, Yenor unveils the effect of modern liberty on this…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 385
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Scott Yenor is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the American Founding Initiative at Boise State University. He lives in Boise, Idaho.



Preface


Nature, Marital Unity, & Contract in Modern Political Thought


Locke & the Invention of the Modern Family


Rousseau & the Romance of Family Life


Hegel's Modern Marital Unity: More Than a Contract, Less Than a Sacrament


In Hegel's Shadow: French Sociologists & Positivist Defences of the Family


The City & the Soul Mate: Mill's Late Liberal Vision


Marx, Engels, & the Abolition of the Family


Freud, Russell, & the Liberated Family


Feminism & the Family


Positivism Supplemented: Anatomy, Evolution, & the Family


A Second Sailing?: Recovering Marital Unity & the Purposes of the Family


What Is to Be Thought?: Tensions & Lessons


Index