Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt by Elshtain, Jean Bethke

Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780271008646)

Vendor: Jean Bethke Elshtain
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$25.95
$25.95
$25.95
Subtotal: $25.95
Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt by Elshtain, Jean Bethke

Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt

$25.95
Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt by Elshtain, Jean Bethke

Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt

$25.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

Contents

Preface: On Writing This Text ix

Acknowledgments xiii

1. Introduction: On Reading This Text 1

2. Luther's Two Kingdoms and the Eclipse of the Female [Mater Ecclesiae] 5

3. Kant and Rational Politics: Woman as a Suspect Category 21

4. Rousseau Redux: Bodies Social and Political 37

5. Feminism and Citizenship: Liberalism and Its Discontents 55

6. Self/Other, Citizen/State: G. W. F. Hegel and Jane Addams 71

7. Freud and the Therapeutic Society: Homo Politicus or Homo Psychologicus? 85

8. War and Political Discourse: From Machiavelli to Arendt 103

9. A Concluding Chapter That Doesn't 115

Bibliography 119

Index 127



Author: Jean Bethke Elshtain
ISBN-10: 0271008644
ISBN-13: 9780271008646
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1992
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.04w x 0.41d
By Jean Bethke Elshtain
By Jean Bethke Elshtain
x

Jean Bethke Elshtain is Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and author of several books, including Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981) and Women and War (1987).

Recently Viewed Products