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Meditations on Modern Political Thought

Meditations on Modern Political Thought

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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Penn State University Press
Año de edición:
1992
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Política y gobierno
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9780271008646
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ContentsPreface: On Writing This Text ixAcknowledgments xiii1. Introduction: On Reading This Text 12. Luther’s Two Kingdoms and the Eclipse of the Female [Mater Ecclesiae] 53. Kant and Rational Politics: Woman as a Suspect Category 214. Rousseau Redux: Bodies Social and Political 375. Feminism and Citizenship: Liberalism and Its Discontents 556. Self/Other, Citizen/State: G. W. F. Hegel and Jane Addams 717. Freud and the Therapeutic Society: Homo Politicus or Homo Psychologicus? 858. War and Political Discourse: From Machiavelli to Arendt 1039. A Concluding Chapter That Doesn’t 115Bibliography 119Index 127 6

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