Liberal states, authoritarian families : childhood and education in early modern thought

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Liberal states, authoritarian families : childhood and education in early modern thought

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childhood and education in early modern thought

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Rita Koganzon

Creator

• Koganzon, Rita

Subject

• Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596
• Child rearing -- Philosophy
• Families -- Philosophy
• Authority
• Locke, John, 1632-1704
• Parent and child -- Philosophy
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
• Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679

Language

eng

Summary

'Liberal States, Authoritarian Families' sheds new light on longstanding questions in educational and political philosophy about the relationship between parents and children in a liberal state. Contemporary theorists argue that the family should be democratized to reflect the egalitarian ideals of the liberal state, but Koganzon argues that this desire for 'congruence' between familial and state authority was originally illiberal in origin, advanced by theorists of absolute sovereignty like Bodin and Hobbes.--

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non fiction

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• dictionaries
• bibliography

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Oxford scholarship online.

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specialized