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

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--jacket. 1. Rousseau : Champion And Critic Of The Transformation Of The Family -- 2. Burke's Fear Of The Destruction Of The Hierarchical Family -- 3. Burke's Philosophical Defense Of The Hierarchical Family -- 4. The Family As Cave, Platoon, And Prison : The Three Stages Of Wollstonecraft's Philosophy Of The Family -- 5. Wollstonecraft, Burke, And Rousseau On The Family : Friends And Foes. Eileen Hunt Botting. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 239-248) And Index. Family Feuds......Page 2 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 INTRODUCTION......Page 10 1. ROUSSEAU Champion and Critic of theTransformation of the Family......Page 24 2. BURKE’S FEAR OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HIERARCHICAL FAMILY......Page 78 3. BURKE’S PHILOSOPHICAL DEFENSEOF THE HIERARCHICAL FAMILY......Page 110 4. THE FAMILY AS CAVE,PLATOON, AND PRISON: The Three Stages of Wollstonecraft’sPhilosophy of the Family......Page 140 5. WOLLSTONECRAFT, BURKE,AND ROUSSEAU ON THE FAMILY: Friends and Foes......Page 198 Notes......Page 224 Bibliography......Page 248 B......Page 258 E......Page 260 H......Page 261 M......Page 262 R......Page 263 S......Page 264 W......Page 265 Z......Page 266