Public and Private in Thought and Practice

About the Contributors Preface 1: The Theory and Politics of the Public/Private Distinction Jeff Weintraub 2: "Two Different Sorts of Commerce" - Friendship and Strangership in Civil Society Allan Silver 3: Nationalism and the Public Sphere Craig Calhoun 4: Humankind as a System: Private and Public Agency at the Origins of Modern Liberalism Daniela Gobetti 5: Rethinking Privacy: Autonomy, Identity, and the Abortion Controversy Jean L. Cohen 6: The Displacement of Politics Jean Bethke Elshtain 7: Public and Private in Theory and Practice: Some Implications of an Uncertain Boundary Alan Wolfe 8: Home: The Promise and Predicament of Private Life at the End of the Twentieth Century Krishan Kumar 9: From Public Housing to Private Communities: The Discipline of Design and the Materialization of the Public/Private Distinction in the Built Environment David Brain 10: Rediscovering the Social: Visiting Practices in Antebellum New England and the Limits of the Public/Private Dichotomy Karen V. Hansen 11: The Shadow of the Leviathan: Public and Private in Communist and Post-Communist Society Marc Garcelon 12: Reveal and Dissimulate: A Genealogy of Private Life in Soviet Russia Oleg Kharkhordin Index