domingo, 10 de junho de 2012

Elizabeth Brake: "Minimizing Marriage"

Entrevista com a filósofa Elizabeth Brake sobre seu livro "Minimizing Marriage" (Oxford Press 2012)

New Books in Philosophy por Robert Talisse

Artigo de Elizabeth Brake: Rawls and Feminism: What Should Feminists Make of Liberal Neutrality? (Journal of Moral Philosophy 2004).


In Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, Elizabeth Brake criticizes the popular view of marriage as intrinsically dyadic, heterosexual, and focused on romantic love and sexual exclusivity.  She also rejects the idea that marriage is a unique kind of moral relation, one that differs in kind from friendships and other kinds of caring relationships.  Brake also challenges the current political and legal significance that currently attaches to marriage. Yet she also rejects marriage disestablishment; employing arguments drawing from John Rawls’s later work, Brake opts instead for a conception of minimal marriage in which marriage is conceived as a relation between two or more people for purposes of mutual care.