1st Edition

Law and the Philosophy of Privacy

By Janice Richardson Copyright 2016
214 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Situating privacy within the context of political philosophy, this book highlights the way in which struggles concerning the meaning of privacy have always been political. Different conceptions of privacy are here shown to involve diverse assumptions about ontology: our conceptions of self, culture, society and communication. Privacy theory’s debt to Locke, Kant or Mill, and what is at stake in... Read more

Introduction,  1. Defining Privacy: The Contemporary ‘Liberal Canon’ and its debt to Locke, Kant and Mill,  2. Privacy and the Law: The Background,   3. Autonomy, Selfhood and Privacy,  4. Locke: Privacy, Property in the Person, Memory and Selfhood,  5. Privacy as a Commodity: Richard Posner,  6. Philosophy of Information and Privacy: Luciano Floridi,  7. Spinoza: An Immanent Ethics of Privacy,  8. Conclusion

Biography

Janice Richardson is an Associate Professor in Law at Monash University. She is author of The Classic Social Contractarians (2009) and Selves, Persons, Individuals (2004); the co-editor of two books in Routledge’s ‘Feminist Perspectives’ series; and a contributor to: Angelaki, Law and Critique, Feminist Legal Studies, Minds and Machines.