Description |
xvii, 380 pages ; 23 cm |
Series |
Morality and society |
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Morality and society.
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Contents |
1. The Theory and Politics of the Public/Private Distinction / Jeff Weintraub -- 2. "Two Different Sorts of Commerce" - Friendship and Strangership in Civil Society / Allan Silver -- 3. Nationalism and the Public Sphere / Craig Calhoun -- 4. Humankind as a System: Private and Public Agency at the Origins of Modern Liberalism / Daniela Gobetti -- 5. Rethinking Privacy: Autonomy, Identity, and the Abortion Controversy / Jean L. Cohen -- 6. The Displacement of Politics / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 7. Public and Private in Theory and Practice: Some Implications of an Uncertain Boundary / Alan Wolfe -- 8. Home: The Promise and Predicament of Private Life at the End of the Twentieth Century / Krishan Kumar -- 9. From Public Housing to Private Communities: The Discipline of Design and the Materialization of the Public/Private Distinction in the Built Environment / David Brain |
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10. Rediscovering the Social: Visiting Practices in Antebellum New England and the Limits of the Public/Private Dichotomy / Karen V. Hansen -- 11. The Shadow of the Leviathan: Public and Private in Communist and Post-Communist Society / Marc Garcelon -- 12. Reveal and Dissimulate: A Genealogy of Private Life in Soviet Russia / Oleg Kharkhordin |
Analysis |
Community |
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Privacy, Right of |
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Public interest |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Communities.
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Privacy, Right of.
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Public interest.
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Author |
Kumar, Krishan, 1942-
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Weintraub, Jeff Alan.
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LC no. |
96008506 |
ISBN |
0226886239 |
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0226886247 |
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