Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family

Botting, Eileen Hunt

ISBN 10: 0791467066 / ISBN 13: 9780791467060

Verlag: State Univ of New York Pr, 2007

257 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __0791467066

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Compares the role of the family in the political thought of Rousseau, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Eileen Hunt Botting is Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

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Titel: Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and ...
Verlag: State Univ of New York Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New