Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the FamilyState 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. |
Contenido
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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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Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of ... Eileen Hunt Botting Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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Página 125 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Página 125 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections...
Página 117 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Página 7 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, ' is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Página 117 - ... in a manner suited to her rank and race and becoming the offspring of a sovereign distinguished for her piety and her courage; that, like her, she has lofty sentiments; that she feels with the dignity of a Roman matron; that in the last extremity she will save herself from the last disgrace; and that if she must fall, she will fall by no ignoble hand.
Página 87 - ... strokes of bayonets and poniards the bed, from whence this persecuted woman had but just time to fly almost naked, and through ways unknown to the murderers had escaped to seek refuge at the feet of a king and husband, not secure of his own life for a moment. This king, to say no more of him, and this queen, and their infant...
Página 125 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve, we are never wholly new; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.
Página 126 - The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
Página 75 - Under such a system, the obnoxious people are slaves not only to the government, but they live at the mercy of every individual ; they are at once the slaves of the whole community and of every part of it ; and the worst and most unmerciful men are those on whose goodness they most depend. In this situation, men not only shrink from the frowns of a stern magistrate, but they are obliged to fly from their very species. The seeds of destruction are sown in civil intercourse, in social habitudes.
Página 118 - Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles of this mechanic philosophy, our institutions can never be embodied, if I may use the expression, in persons; so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place.
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The Rights of Woman as Chimera: The Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft Natalie Fuehrer Taylor Vista previa limitada - 2007 |