Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Eileen Hunt Botting is Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews

"Among this book's substantial merits are its systematic treatment of the family as a site and source of political attitudes, values, and feelings in each of the three theorists' work. The richness of the book and the obvious analytic strengths of the author suggest that