By Scott Yenor

ISBN-10: 1602583056

ISBN-13: 9781602583054

ISBN-10: 1602584796

ISBN-13: 9781602584792

With crisp prose and highbrow equity, relatives Politics strains the therapy of the family members within the philosophies of major political thinkers of the fashionable international. what's kinfolk? what's marriage? so as to handle modern society's disputes over the meanings of those human social associations, Scott Yenor conscientiously examines a roster of significant and unforeseen smooth political philosophers--from Locke and Rousseau to Hegel and Marx to Freud and Beauvoir. He lucidly provides how those members constructed an knowing of relatives with a view to improve their pursuits of political and social reform. via this exploration, Yenor unveils the impression of recent liberty in this foundational establishment and argues that the hunt to pursue person autonomy has undermined the character of marriage and jeopardizes its future.

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