1st Edition

Private and Public Individuals, Households, and Body Politic in Locke and Hutcheson

By Daniela Gobetti Copyright 1992
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1992. This arresting and innovative book combines political theory with the history of political thought to question the conceptual conventions and tacit assumptions which surround the concepts of private and public. In seeking the foundations of the modern liberal conception of private and public, she traces it to modern Natural Law thinkers, in particular Locke and... Read more

Introduction 1. Domestic Society/Political Society 2. Patriarchalism 3. Private/Public 4. A New Public. Conclusion

Biography

Gobetti, Daniela