Privacy - Couverture souple

Keizer, Garret

 
9780312554842: Privacy
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0312554842 ISBN 13 : 9780312554842
Editeur : Picador USA, 2012

Synopsis

Body scans at the airport, bikini pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street corner - today we have an audience for all of the extraordinary and banal events of our lives. The threshold between privacy and disclosure becomes more permeable by the minute. But what happens to our private selves - indeed, the people who we truly are - when our public personas are left on? In this brilliant, penetrating addition to the "Big Ideas/Small Books" series, Garret Keizer considers the moral dimensions of privacy in relation to "choice" and "equality." Choice not only protects us from violation but also allows social intercourse to be dignified, beautiful, and interesting. At the same time, privacy is most voluntary between persons of equivalent power. In "Privacy", Keizer considers the evolution of the quintessentially American struggle to achieve it, which - along with the battles liberty and justice for all - has done much to define our recent history. From Greek and Elizabethan dramas to the histories of the ballot box, the love letter and the immense, overcrowded confessional of the Internet, he examines our ever-changing notions of privacy, all the while asking this central question: If we endanger privacy, do we not also threaten the fundamental nature of human relationships, our will to freely guard and reveal ourselves?

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Body scans at the airport, bikini pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street corner - today we have an audience for all of the extraordinary and banal events of our lives. The threshold between privacy and disclosure becomes more permeable by the minute. But what happens to our private selves - indeed, the people who we truly are - when our public personas are left on? In this brilliant, penetrating addition to the "Big Ideas/Small Books" series, Garret Keizer considers the moral dimensions of privacy in relation to "choice" and "equality." Choice not only protects us from violation but also allows social intercourse to be dignified, beautiful, and interesting. At the same time, privacy is most voluntary between persons of equivalent power. In "Privacy", Keizer considers the evolution of the quintessentially American struggle to achieve it, which - along with the battles liberty and justice for all - has done much to define our recent history. From Greek and Elizabethan dramas to the histories of the ballot box, the love letter and the immense, overcrowded confessional of the Internet, he examines our ever-changing notions of privacy, all the while asking this central question: If we endanger privacy, do we not also threaten the fundamental nature of human relationships, our will to freely guard and reveal ourselves?

Revue de presse

Advance Praise for "Privacy""Privacy has become one of the defining issues of our time, and Garret Keizer is now its most searching interrogator and publicist. He is vast of reference, bracing of clarity, and graceful of expression. What an invigorating instruction: to follow an engaged intelligence as it hits its marks, one after the next."---Sven Birkerts, author of "The Glutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age""Garret Keizer is a very serious thinker and a good writer, much concerned with fundamental realities and fundamental problems. As with any good essay, reading "Privacy" is not the end of it; it calls for serious contemplation."---John Lukacs, author of "Five Days in London: May 1940"Praise for "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want""Very few writers combine thoughtfulness and rage as satisfyingly as Garret Keizer....This is not just a book about noise; it is a profound meditation on power---its painful absence and its flagrant abuse."---Naomi Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine""This is a masterpiece of social reportage and---wondrously, given all its burning indictments---of decency and affirmation."- --Ron Powers, author of" Mark Twain: A Life "and""coauthor of "Flags of Our Fathers"""

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Éditeur
Picador USA
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0312554842
ISBN 13 
9780312554842
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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