Family politics [[electronic resource] ] : the idea of marriage in modern political thought / / Scott Yenor

• Autore: Yenor Scott <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Waco, Tex., : Baylor University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.809--dc22
• Soggetto topico: Marriage - History - 19th century; Marriage - History - 20th century; Families - History - 19th century; Families - History - 20th century; Political science - History - 19th century; Political science - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-355) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: From Locke to John Paul II, a compelling history of family in political philosophy
• Titolo autorizzato: Family politics
• ISBN: 1-60258-480-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462068203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II