This new book by Beate Rossler is a work of real quality and originality on an extremely topical issue: the issue of privacy and the relations between the private and the public.





Rossler investigates the reasons why we value privacy and why we ought to value it. In the context of modern, liberal societies, Rossler develops a theory of the private which links privacy and autonomy in a constitutive way: privacy is a necessary condition to lead an autonomous life. The book develops a theory of freedom and autonomy which sees the ability to pose the...

This ambitious, interdisciplinary collection responds to present intellectual debates concerning the value and limits of privacy. Ever since the beginning of modernity, the line of demarcation between private and public spaces, and the distinction between them, have continually been challenged and redrawn. Such developments as new technologies that introduce previously unforeseen possibilities for infringement upon privacy and the modern spectacles of television talk shows and -reality-TV- give added urgency to the discussion on privacy. This collection examines the fundamental issues...

This ambitious, interdisciplinary collection responds to present intellectual debates concerning the value and limits of privacy. Ever since the beginning of modernity, the line of demarcation between private and public spaces, and the distinction between them, have continually been challenged and redrawn. Such developments as new technologies that introduce previously unforeseen possibilities for infringement upon privacy and the modern spectacles of television talk shows and "reality-TV" give added urgency to the discussion on privacy. This collection examines the fundamental issues...

The Handbook of Political Philosophy and Social Philosophy presents a comprehensive, sophisticated and reliable scholarly account of present-day political philosophy and social philosophy. It is a lexical reference work arranged alphabetically by headwords. Concepts, topics and problems are dealt with encyclopaedically in their systematic context under each headword. The headwords are arranged in such a way that they give systematic access to a thematic area. In addition to entries on subject topics, there are also entries on persons.

The Handbook of Political...

In der Liebe, in der Freundschaft oder in der Familie scheinen andere moralische Regeln zu gelten als in Beziehungen zu Fremden: Offenbar haben wir andere moralische Erwartungen an Personen, die uns nahestehen, als an Fremde. Wie aber mte man eine solche Moral beschreiben? Welche anderen Rechte oder Pflichten, welche anderen moralischen Einstellungen herrschen in den persnlichen Beziehungen? Welche moralischen Pflichten haben Kinder gegenber ihren Eltern? Handeln wir in Liebesbeziehungen nur aus Liebe oder auch aus Pflicht? Zum ersten Mal liegt im deutschsprachigen Raum ein Band vor, der sich...