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Family politics : the idea of marriage in modern political thought /
This work traces 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, the author examines a roster of maj...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waco, Tex. :
Baylor University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Project Muse philosophy and religion collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nature, marital unity, and contract in modern political thought
- pt. I. The ballast of nature and the ends of the family. Locke and the invention of the modern family
- Rousseau and the romance of family life
- pt. II. The moving ballast of history. Hegel's modern marital unity : more than a contract, less than a sacrament
- In Hegel's shadow : French sociologists and positivist defenses of the family
- pt. III. Liberation and the movement toward the family's end. The city and the soul mate : Mill's late liberal vision
- Marx, Engels, and the abolition of the family
- Freud, Russell, and the liberated family
- Feminism and the family
- pt. IV. The old family and a new nature. Positivism supplemented : anatomy, evolution, and the family
- A second sailing? : recovering marital unity and the purposes of the family
- What is to be thought? : tensions and lessons.