Review of Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake

Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake
Reviewed by Long in Reason.com

In the 1970’s Bettelheim wrote a piece for Daedelus that marriage, for the most part of history has been an economic pact for a small businesss (the family, as Talcott Parsons might put it).  As economics change and with the legal freeing up of divorce in the US (and conferring economic benefits to the spouse), marriage as economic institution has shifted and will continue to shift. Continue reading Review of Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake

Reviews of Slavoj Žižek and His Response

Click Here to Read: The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek by John Gray in The New York Review of Books  on July 12, 2012,

Click Here to Read: Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek – review A march through Slavoj Žižek’s ‘masterwork’ by Jonathan Rée on the guardian.co.uk website on  June 27, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Slavoj  Žižek responds to his critics by Slavoj Žižek  on the Lacan.com website.