Cultures of Privacy: Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, Band 17)

Fitz, Karsten and Bärbel Harju:

ISBN 10: 382536545X / ISBN 13: 9783825365455

Published by Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg 15.01.2016., 2016

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292 Seiten B05-04-06F Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 556 8° 16,3 x 2,3 x 23,9 cm, Gebundene Ausgabe.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cultures of Privacy: Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy, Band 17)
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg 15.01.2016.
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 382536545X
• ISBN 13: 9783825365455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Wie neu
• Weight: 556 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kulturgeschichte

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Synopsis

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.