Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought

Scott Yenor is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the American Founding Initiative at Boise State University. He lives in Boise, Idaho.

... an important contribution to the recovery of the family's meaning. [Yenor] argues convincingly that the framework provided by modern political thought does not provide sufficient means for our doing so.

Scott Yenor's book...tackles an incredibly ambitious task in its aim to understand marriage in political thought over the last several centuries.

[Yenor] covers a wide range of the most important modern philosophic, political, social scientific, and religious works on the family. Few treatments of the foundational problems of the family are this thorough or deep.... Family Politics provides a good starting point for all those who seek to grapple with the problem of the modern family.