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Family Politics

Name: Family Politics
Author: Scott Yenor
ISBN: 9781602584792

The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought

by Scott Yenor

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

From Locke to John Paul II, a compelling history of family in political philosophy

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With crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics 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, 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 foundational institution and argues that the quest to pursue individual autonomy has undermined the nature of marriage and jeopardizes its future.

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Nature, Marital Unity, and Contract in Modern Political Thought 1

Part I: The Ballast of Nature and the Ends of the Family

2 Locke and the Invention of the Modern Family

3 Rousseau and the Romance of Family Life

Part II: The Movin g Ballast of History

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

5 In Hegel's Shadow: French Sociologists and Positivist Defenses of the Family

Part III: Liberation and the Movement toward the Family's End

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

7 Marx, Engels, and the Abolition of the Family

8 Freud, Russell, and the Liberated Family

9 Feminism and the Family

Part IV: The Old Family and a New Nature

10 Positivism Supplemented: Anatomy, Evolution, and the Family

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

12 What Is to Be Thought?: Tensions and Lessons

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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

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