Law and the Philosophy of Privacy

ISBN-13: 9781138081116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 214 str.

Janice Richardson

Opis

Law and the Philosophy of Privacy draws upon contemporary feminist philosophy in order to consider the meaning of legal personhood, its relationship to human freedom and autonomy and its connection to what is classified as public and private.

Spis treści

Introduction,  1. Defining Privacy: The Contemporary ‘Liberal Canon’ and its debt to Locke, Kant and Mill,  2. Privacy and the Law: The Background,   3. Autonomy, Selfhood and Privacy,  4. Locke: Privacy, Property in the Person, Memory and Selfhood,  5. Privacy as a Commodity: Richard Posner,  6. Philosophy of Information and Privacy: Luciano Floridi,  7. Spinoza: An Immanent Ethics of Privacy,  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Janice Richardson is an Associate Professor in Law at Monash University. She is author of The Classic Social Contractarians (2009) and Selves, Persons, Individuals (2004); the co-editor of two books in Routledge’s ‘Feminist Perspectives’ series; and a contributor to: Angelaki, Law and Critique, Feminist Legal Studies, Minds and Machines.