Cultures of Privacy

Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations
America has been hailed as the land of personal freedom, where the rights of the single citizen reign over the demands and expectations of the masses. Yet freedom of choice and the premium placed on private property also necessitated a counter force, a submission to authority and preestablished patterns of behavior. And it led to a highly ambivalent notion of privacy, as an individual right situated between apparent opposites-private freedom and public order, liberalism and authoritarianism, (individual) autonomy and (communal) collectivity.



Cultures of Privacy: Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations addresses the nation's struggles to harmonize these opposites, to reconcile the private and the public, both in a historical and comparatist, transnational perspective. Read more Continue reading Read less

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