Public and Private in Thought and Practice
Subtitle: Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy (Morality and Society Series)
Contributors: Jeff Weintraub (Editor); Krishan Kumar (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780226886244
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Political science & theory; Political Science; Philosophy; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Political Science / Civil Rights; Communities; Community; Privacy, Right of; Public interest
First sentence: THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN "public" and "private" has been a central and characteristic preoccupation of Western thought since classical antiquity, and has long served as a point of entry into many of the key issues of social and political analysis, of moral and political debate, and of the ordering of everyday life.