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Title Public and private in thought and practice : perspectives on a grand dichotomy / Jeff Weintraub & Krishan Kumar, editors
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997

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Description xvii, 380 pages ; 23 cm
Series Morality and society
Morality and society.
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
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
Privacy, Right of
Public interest
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Communities.
Privacy, Right of.
Public interest.
Author Kumar, Krishan, 1942-
Weintraub, Jeff Alan.
LC no. 96008506
ISBN 0226886239
0226886247