Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought - Hardcover

Yenor, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602583056 ISBN 13: 9781602583054

Verlag: Baylor University Press, 2011

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Book by Scott Yenor

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"Wonderful! This is an amazing achievement, blending sociological expertise, theological savvy, and profound spiritual sensitivities." --Richard J. Mouw, President and Professor of Christian Philosophy, Fuller Theological Seminary

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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? And 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 jeopardises its future.

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• Verlag: Baylor University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1602583056
• ISBN 13: 9781602583054
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 385