Terrell Carver

Men in Political Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

"Men in Political Theory" builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in political philosophy by turning the "gender lens" on to the representation of men in widely studied texts. It explains the distinction between "man" as an apparently de-gendered "individual" or "citizen" and "man" as an overtly gendered being in human society. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the "gender lens" in different ways, depending on how each philosopher deploys concepts of men and masculinity to pose and solve classic problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780719059131
• ISBN-10: 0719059135
• Artikelnr.: 21624649

Autorenporträt

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Plato: men/women and order/disorder in The Republic 2.
Aristotle: men, masculinities and metaphors 3. Jesus: masculinity and the
'son of man' 4. Augustine: confessing like a man 5. Machiavelli: discourses
on masculinities 6. Hobbes: materialism, mechanism, masculinity 7. Locke:
overtly and covertly gendered narratives of political society 8. Rousseau:
fantasising men 9. Marx: (non)critique of the gender categories 10. Engels:
men behaving naturally Conclusion