Love and Duty: A Critical Analysis of Engels’s Account of the Family

• In Event: Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Challenges for Liberal Democracy's Critics

Brief Overview

This paper gives a brief summary of Engels’s historical account of the family, and then proceeds to a deeper investigation of a particular problem in that account: why does Engels postpone the emergence of romantic love to the medieval period?

Author

• Mingfei Phil Duan, University of Texas at Austin