Public and Private in Social Life

Preface. Introductory. 1. The Public and the Private: Concepts and Action Stanley I. Benn and Gerald F. Gaus Part I: Public and Private in Western Cultures 2. The Liberal Conception of the Public and the Private Stanley I. Benn and Gerald F. Gaus 3. Public Law - Private Law Alice Erh-Soon Tay and Eugene Kamenka 4. Public Function - Private Action: A Common Law Dilemma Paul Finn 5. Information Control: Availability and Exclusion Ruth Gavison 6. Private Selves and Public Parts Alan Ryan 7. Private and Public Morality: Clean Living and Dirty Hands Stanley I. Benn 8. Private and Public Interests in Liberal Political Economy, Old and New Gerald F. Gaus 9. Public and Private Property Alan Ryan Part II: Critiques of the Liberal Conception of Public and Private 10. Public and Private Interests: Hegel on Civil Society and the State Anthony S. Walton 11. Public/Private in Marxist Theory and Marxist Practice Eugene Kamenka 12. Feminist Critiques of the Public/Private Dichotomy Carole Pateman Part III: Public and Private in Non-Liberal Cultures 13. Publicness, Privateness and 'Primitive Law' Martin Krygier 14. Privacy in a Mexican Indian Village Leslie K. Haviland and John B. Haviland 15. Classical Greek Conceptions of Public and Private Arlene Saxonhouse. Notes on Contributors. Index of Persons. Index of Subjects.