Family and the Politics of Moderation: Private Life, Public Goods, and the Rebirth of Social Individualism

Contents

vii Contents acknowledgments ix Introduction: a Familial Fulcrum 1 1 Contemporary Liberalism, Human nature, and the Family 7 2 Marxism, Collectivism, and the Family 23 3 ayn Rand, Individualism, and the Family 41 4 Montesquieu, Burke, and the Moderate Family 65 5 Family Forms and the Social Individual 85 Conclusion: Political Moderation and the Familial Fulcrum 109 notes 117 Bibliography 171 Index 183 This page intentionally left blank ...