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Family feuds : Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the transformation of the family / Eileen Hunt Botting.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, Eileen M., 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797--Political and social views.
- Wollstonecraft, Mary.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Political and social views.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797--Political and social views.
- Burke, Edmund.
- Families--Philosophy.
- Families.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Family Feuds is the first sustained comparative study of the place of the family in the political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Eileen Hunt Botting argues that Wollstonecraft recognized both Rousseau's and Burke's influential stature in late eighteenth-century debates about the family. Wollstonecraft critically identified them as philosophical and political partners in the defense of the patriarchal structure of the family, yet she used Rousseau's conceptions of childhood education and maternal empowerment and Burke's understanding of the family as the affective basis for political socialization as a theoretical foundation for her own egalitarian vision of the family. It is this ideal of the egalitarian family, Botting contends, that is one of the most important yet least appreciated legacies of Enlightenment political thought.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Rousseau
- Burke's Fear of the Destruction of the Hierarchical Family
- Burke's Philosophical Defense of the Hierarchical Family
- The Family as Cave, Platoon, and Prison
- Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Family
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791482032
- 0791482030
- 9781423773467
- 1423773462
- OCLC:
- 69242567
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