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

Scott Yenor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602584796 ISBN 13: 9781602584792

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

[Yenor] covers a wide range of the most important modern philosophic, political, social scientific, and religious works on the family. Few treatments of the foundational problems of the family are this thorough or deep.... Family Politics provides a good starting point for all those who seek to grapple with the problem of the modern family.

--Claremont Review of Books

... an important contribution to the recovery of the family's meaning. [Yenor] argues convincingly that the framework provided by modern political thought does not provide sufficient means for our doing so.

--Perspectives on Political Science

Scott Yenor's book...tackles an incredibly ambitious task in its aim to understand marriage in political thought over the last several centuries.

--Alison Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology "Humanities and Social Sciences Online "

About this edition

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1602584796
• ISBN 13: 9781602584792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 385