{"id":2151,"date":"2024-08-23T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2024-08-31T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T19:04:20","slug":"new-publication-by-meghan-robison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/2024\/08\/23\/new-publication-by-meghan-robison\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication by Meghan Robison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently published is Meghan Robison&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/hypatia\/article\/mother-lords-original-maternal-dominion-and-the-practice-of-preservation-in-hobbes\/8175C924206E8DE87D016CE052246982\">Mother Lords: Original Maternal Dominion and the Practice of Preservation in Hobbes.<\/a>\u201d The article was published in <em>Hypatia<\/em> 38 (1) 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<br \/>\nHobbes&#8217;s justification for original maternal dominion is often evaluated in connection to the ambiguous status of women in his political thought. Many feminist interpreters explain this ambiguity as a contradiction: following Carole Pateman, they see maternal dominion as one term of the \u201cparadox of parental power.\u201d The first aim of this article is to elaborate a second, alternative approach within some critical responses to Pateman&#8217;s reading. Rather than as one part of a contradiction, in these interpretations maternal dominion emerges as a self-standing form of authority that is very different from patriarchal domination. By offering a new synthesis of some of these interpretations, I aim to show this second view as more comprehensive and compelling than that offered by Pateman. Then, building upon this view, I give a new reading of the concept of preservation that establishes the mother&#8217;s dominion as an intersubjective practice that reflects an awareness about the interdependent conditions for human well-being and, hence, challenges the standard approach to Hobbesian individualism and sovereign power. Finally, drawing from my interpretation of preservation, I offer a new way to understand Hobbes&#8217;s argument that \u201cparental authority is derived from the child&#8217;s consent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently published is Meghan Robison&#8217;s \u201cMother Lords: Original Maternal Dominion and the Practice of Preservation in Hobbes.\u201d The article was published in Hypatia 38 (1) 2023. Abstract Hobbes&#8217;s justification for original maternal dominion is often evaluated in connection to the ambiguous status of women in his political thought. Many feminist interpreters explain this ambiguity as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}