@article {Warner:2016:0143-781X:107,
title = "MEN, CITIZENS AND THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM: LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN ROUSSEAU'S EMILE",
journal = "History of Political Thought",
parent_itemid = "infobike://imp/hpt",
publishercode ="imp",
year = "2016",
volume = "37",
number = "1",
publication date ="2016-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "107-126",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0143-781X",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/hpt/2016/00000037/00000001/art00005",
author = "Warner, J.M.",
abstract = "Marriage is the subject of enduring controversy, and contemporary debates are in many ways the product of eighteenth-century attempts to redefine the term. With this in mind, I inquire after one of the Enlightenment era's most influential attempts to reinterpret the significance
of marriage: that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Relying in particular on Emile, I argue Rousseauan marriage seeks to directly instantiate the human good by effecting a comprehensive connection between spouses, but necessarily fails due to the basic instability of the sexual passion. This 'tragic'
view of marriage contradicts two dominant interpretive approaches and requires a reinterpretation of Rousseau's understanding of the relationship between the household and the polity.",
}