Table of Contents

Preface; Nature, Marital Unity, & Contract in Modern Political Thought; Locke & the Invention of the Modern Family; Rousseau & the Romance of Family Life; Hegel's Modern Marital Unity: More Than a Contract, Less Than a Sacrament; In Hegel's Shadow: French Sociologists & Positivist Defences of the Family; The City & the Soul Mate: Mill's Late Liberal Vision; Marx, Engels, & the Abolition of the Family; Freud, Russell, & the Liberated Family; Feminism & the Family; Positivism Supplemented: Anatomy, Evolution, & the Family; A Second Sailing?: Recovering Marital Unity & the Purposes of the Family; What Is to Be Thought?: Tensions & Lessons; Index.

About the Author

Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning author whose bestselling book, The Genie in Your Genes, has been hailed as a breakthrough in the field of epigenetics. He has published numerous scientific papers, with a focus on the remarkable self-healing mechanisms now emerging at the intersection of emotion and gene expression. He applies these breakthroughs to health and athletic performance through EFTUniverse.com, which is one of the largest alternative medicine sites on the web. dawsonchurch.com He is editor emeritus of the peer-reviewed journal Energy Psychology: Theory, Research & Treatment, and founded the nonprofit Soul Medicine Institute to research and train practitioners in energy psychology. He works with businesses and sports teams to achieve peak performance; he no longer accepts private clients but instead refers them to the certified practitioners at EFT Universe.