Public and Private in Social Life (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Benn, S. I.; Gaus, G. F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Conceptions of publicness and privateness structure not only our thinking about society and ourselves, but also, by structuring our institutions and practices, dictate how we act within society. Originally published in 1983, the complexity inherent in the distinction between public and private is explored fully in this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040347805
• Artikelnr.: 73208703

Autorenporträt

S. I. Benn was at the time of original publication Professorial Fellow in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra. G. F. Gaus was at the time of original publication Assistant Professor of Politics at Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introductory. 1. The Public and the Private: Concepts and Action
Stanley I. Benn and Gerald F. Gaus Part I: Public and Private in Western
Cultures 2. The Liberal Conception of the Public and the Private Stanley I.
Benn and Gerald F. Gaus 3. Public Law - Private Law Alice Erh-Soon Tay and
Eugene Kamenka 4. Public Function - Private Action: A Common Law Dilemma
Paul Finn 5. Information Control: Availability and Exclusion Ruth Gavison
6. Private Selves and Public Parts Alan Ryan 7. Private and Public
Morality: Clean Living and Dirty Hands Stanley I. Benn 8. Private and
Public Interests in Liberal Political Economy, Old and New Gerald F. Gaus
9. Public and Private Property Alan Ryan Part II: Critiques of the Liberal
Conception of Public and Private 10. Public and Private Interests: Hegel on
Civil Society and the State Anthony S. Walton 11. Public/Private in Marxist
Theory and Marxist Practice Eugene Kamenka 12. Feminist Critiques of the
Public/Private Dichotomy Carole Pateman Part III: Public and Private in
Non-Liberal Cultures 13. Publicness, Privateness and 'Primitive Law'
Martin Krygier 14. Privacy in a Mexican Indian Village Leslie K. Haviland
and John B. Haviland 15. Classical Greek Conceptions of Public and Private
Arlene Saxonhouse. Notes on Contributors. Index of Persons. Index of
Subjects.