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Family politics : the idea of marriage in modern political thought / Scott Yenor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yenor, Scott, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--History--19th century.
- Marriage.
- Marriage--History--20th century.
- Families--History--19th century.
- Families.
- Families--History--20th century.
- Political science--History--19th century.
- Political science.
- Political science--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From Locke to John Paul II, a compelling history of family in political philosophy
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-355) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781602584808
- 160258480X
- OCLC:
- 794698772
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