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 ...
This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While app...
This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While app...
The paper begins with an exploration of the theoretical differences between different visions of the...
What is a family? In this podcast, Dr. Yenor discusses how family and marriage are viewed through th...
Glance at a political party’s platform, catch a politician’s speech, sample the news, and you will f...
This post includes the table of contents, introduction and our comment as the editors of an interdis...
This post includes the table of contents, introduction and our comment as the editors of an interdis...
In the past century, no institution has come under more sustained assault than the family. Radical f...
What is love and what is its place in our lives? This question is especially relevant to today’s you...
In the past century, no institution has come under more sustained assault than the family. Radical f...
In the past century, no institution has come under more sustained assault than the family. Radical f...
Why do families matter? Is it simply because of their role in social reproduction, or does this igno...
The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried c...
The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried c...
Political philosophers´ interest in the family - understood as a unit in which one or more adults di...
This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While app...
This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While app...
The paper begins with an exploration of the theoretical differences between different visions of the...
What is a family? In this podcast, Dr. Yenor discusses how family and marriage are viewed through th...
Glance at a political party’s platform, catch a politician’s speech, sample the news, and you will f...
This post includes the table of contents, introduction and our comment as the editors of an interdis...
This post includes the table of contents, introduction and our comment as the editors of an interdis...
In the past century, no institution has come under more sustained assault than the family. Radical f...
What is love and what is its place in our lives? This question is especially relevant to today’s you...
In the past century, no institution has come under more sustained assault than the family. Radical f...
In the past century, no institution has come under more sustained assault than the family. Radical f...
Why do families matter? Is it simply because of their role in social reproduction, or does this igno...
The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried c...
The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried c...
Political philosophers´ interest in the family - understood as a unit in which one or more adults di...
This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While app...
This book defends the fundamental place of the marital family in modern liberal societies. While app...
The paper begins with an exploration of the theoretical differences between different visions of the...