Digital Whoness - Identity, Privacy and Freedom in the Cyberworld

The first aim is to provide well-articulated concepts by thinking through elementary phenomena of today's world, focusing on privacy and the digital, to clarify who we are in the cyberworld - hence a phenomenology of digital whoness. The second aim is to engage critically, hermeneutically with older and current literature on privacy, including in today's emerging cyberworld. Phenomenological results include concepts of i) self-identity through interplay with the world, ii) personal privacy in contradistinction to the privacy of private property, iii) the cyberworld as an artificial, digital dimension in order to discuss iv) what freedom in the cyberworld can mean, whilst not neglecting v) intercultural aspects and vi) the EU context.

About the author

Rafael Capurro is Prof. emeritus, founder of the International Center for Information Ethics, Karlsruhe and editor-in-chief of the International Review of Information Ethics. His work has concentrated on a phenomenological approach to information ethics in which he has numerous publications in many languages.

Product details

• Authors: Rafael Capurro, Michael Eldred, Daniel Nagel
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9783868381764
• ISBN: 978-3-86838-176-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 523 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day