Hegel on the Family Form

Name: Hegel on the Family Form
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Hegel on the Family FormAuthor(s): Andreja Novakovic\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009586719, 978-1009586719\nSynopsis\nHegel famously argues that the patriarchal, bourgeois nuclear family is a rational institution worth defending. Scholars have asked what exactly to do with this seemingly outdated part of his social and political philosophy. In particular, they have wondered whether Hegel's concept of the family can accommodate changes to our understanding of what counts as a family and what constitutes family relations. In this Element, I ask whether Hegel's defense of the family can be reconciled with family abolition, the project not of reforming the family as an institution, but of radically transforming it beyond recognition. By examining the three relationships that Hegel associates with the family brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and parents and children I argue that Hege.