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Conceptions of publicness and privateness structure not only our thinking about society and ourselves, but also, by structuring our institutions and practices, dictate how we act within society. Originally published in 1983, the complexity inherent in the distinction between public and private is explored fully in this book.
List of contents
Preface. Introductory. 1. The Public and the Private: Concepts and Action
Stanley I. Benn and Gerald F. Gaus Part I: Public and Private in Western Cultures 2. The Liberal Conception of the Public and the Private
Stanley I. Benn and Gerald F. Gaus 3. Public Law - Private Law
Alice Erh-Soon Tay and Eugene Kamenka 4. Public Function - Private Action: A Common Law Dilemma
Paul Finn 5. Information Control: Availability and Exclusion
Ruth Gavison 6. Private Selves and Public Parts
Alan Ryan 7. Private and Public Morality: Clean Living and Dirty Hands
Stanley I. Benn 8. Private and Public Interests in Liberal Political Economy, Old and New
Gerald F. Gaus 9. Public and Private Property
Alan Ryan Part II: Critiques of the Liberal Conception of Public and Private 10. Public and Private Interests: Hegel on Civil Society and the State
Anthony S. Walton 11. Public/Private in Marxist Theory and Marxist Practice
Eugene Kamenka 12. Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy
Carole Pateman Part III: Public and Private in Non-Liberal Cultures 13. Publicness, Privateness and 'Primitive Law'
Martin Krygier 14. Privacy in a Mexican Indian Village
Leslie K. Haviland and John B. Haviland 15. Classical Greek Conceptions of Public and Private
Arlene Saxonhouse. Notes on Contributors. Index of Persons. Index of Subjects.
About the author
S. I. Benn was at the time of original publication Professorial Fellow in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra.
G. F. Gaus was at the time of original publication Assistant Professor of Politics at Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA.
