Jonh Locke's kindred politics: Phantom fatherhood, vicious brothers and friendly equal brethren

• Autores: Laura Janara
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 33, Nº 3, 2012, págs. 455-489
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Locke's political theory centres on juridical matters of law, right, consent and legitimacy. Despite his concern to differentiate politics from family and posit a free and equal post-familial individual as political subject, this apparently abstract political theory is itself conveyed through a narrative of family. Locke rejects patriarchal absolutism that casts the king as a patriarchal father by thinking politics through alternative conceptions of father, sons and brothers. As such, Locke did not in fact help muster liberalism by instantiating a vivid public-private divide that insulated the political imagination from ideas of family.