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

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State University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 266 páginas
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.
 

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INTRODUCTION
1
1 ROUSSEAU Champion and Critic of theTransformation of the Family
15
2 BURKES FEAR OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HIERARCHICAL FAMILY
69
3 BURKES PHILOSOPHICAL DEFENSEOF THE HIERARCHICAL FAMILY
101
The Three Stages of WollstonecraftsPhilosophy of the Family
131
Friends and Foes
189
Notes
215
Bibliography
239
Index
249
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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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