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Zusatztext "The chief achievement of this book is to explain why privacy matters. . . . Privacy: A Manifesto is as fine a defence of individual autonomy as you will find. You feel that Sofsky is not merely defending the idea of individual autonomy but has absorbed it as an ethic into his very bones." ---Josie Appleton, Spiked Review of Books Informationen zum Autor Wolfgang Sofsky 's books include Violence: Terrorism, Genocide, War (Granta) and The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp (Princeton). Klappentext "Writing in a readable and fluid style, Wolfgang Sofsky shows just how important privacy is to modern life and, at the same time, just how endangered privacy has become. A reminder that to defend privacy is to defend democracy, individualism, and the good life, this book will interest anyone who has ever felt uneasy about how much governments and corporations know about us."--Hans-Peter Mller, Humboldt University, Berlin Zusammenfassung Describes a day in the life of an average modern citizen - in other words, a person under almost constant scrutiny. This title traces the status of privacy from ancient Rome onwards, explains how liberty and freedom of thought depend on privacy, and points to some of the places where privacy is under greatest threat, from health to personal space. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Traces 1 Chapter 2: Power and Privacy 11 Chapter 3: Retrospectives 23 Chapter 4: Freedom and Privacy 30 Chapter 5: Territories of the Self 36 Chapter 6: Secrets of the Body 49 Chapter 7: Private Spaces 65 Chapter 8: Property 79 Chapter 9: Information 94 Chapter 10: Freedom of Thought 109 Notes 131
