Meditations on Modern Political Thought
Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt
144 pages | 6 x 9 | 1992
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ISBN 978-0-271-00864-6 | paper: $22.00 sh
ISBN 978-0-271-00864-6 | paper: $22.00 sh
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 (Princeton, 1981) and Women and War (Basic Books, 1987).
Preface: On Writing This Text ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1 Introduction: On Reading This Text 1
Chapter 2 Luther's Two Kingdoms and the Eclipse of the Female [Mater Ecclesiae] 5
Chapter 3 Kant and Rational Politics: Woman as a Suspect Category 21
Chapter 4 Rousseau Redux: Bodies Social and Political 37
Chapter 5 Feminism and Citizenship: Liberalism and Its Discontents 55
Chapter 6 Self/Other, Citizen/State: G. W. F. Hegel and Jane Addams 71
Chapter 7 Freud and the Therapeutic Society: Homo Politicus or Homo Psychologicus? 85
Chapter 8 War and Political Discourse: From Machiavelli to Arendt 103
Chapter 9 A Concluding Chapter That Doesn't 115
Bibliography 119
Index 127