1st Edition
Public and Private Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The public and private distinction is essential to our moral and political vocabularies as it continues to structure our social and legal practices. Public and Private provides a multidisciplinary perspective on this distinction which has been at the centre of controversial debate in recent years. The focus of the debate has been on delineating acceptable boundaries between public and private in... Read more
Introduction Introductory; Chapter 1 Public and private, d’Entreves Maurizio Passerin, Ursula Vogel; Part 1 Philosophical and political perspectives; Chapter 2 The ‘public–private’ demarcation, Hillel Steiner; Chapter 3 Public reason, private citizenship, Dario Castiglione; Chapter 4 Private irony and the public hope of Richard Rorty’s liberalism, Shane O’Neill; Chapter 5 Public and private in Hannah Arendt’s conception of citizenship, Maurizio Passerin d’Entreves; Part 2 Legal perspectives; Chapter 6 The civility of law: between public and private, Christine Sypnowich; Chapter 7 Is privacy a legal duty?, Jean L. Cohen; Chapter 8 Justice, causation and private law, N.E. Simmonds; Chapter 9 Private contract and public institution, Ursula Vogel;
Biography
Maurizio Passerin d’Entreves, Ursula Vogel
'The quality of the papers is as impressive as the list of contributors. But the volume's main strength is that it embraces the complexity and contestability of the relationship between public and private to link the multi-disciplinarity of the authors and diversity of their arguments ... the content and presentation of these arguments are both stimulating and ... accessible.' - Political Theory
