Ferguson starts with the commonplace assumption within political philosophy that the family provides the ideal model for political association. Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society.
Kennan Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and the author of William James: Politics in the Pluriverse and The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory.
