Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm - Couverture rigide

Cohen, Jean L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691057400 ISBN 13 : 9780691057408

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Disputes have arisen over questions that apparently set the demands of personal autonomy, justice and responsibility against each other. Can law stay out of the bedroom without shielding oppression and abuse? Can we protect the pursuit of personal happiness while requiring people to behave responsibly towards others? Can regulation acknowledge a variety of intimate relationships without privileging any? Jean Cohen argues that these questions have been impossible to resolve because most legislators, activists and scholars have drawn on an anachronistic conception of privacy, one founded on the idea that privacy involves secrecy and entails a sphere free from legal regulation. In response, Cohen draws on Habermas and other European thinkers to present a robust "constructivist" defence of privacy, one based on the idea that norms and rights are legally constructed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jean L. Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She is the author of Class and Civil Society and the coauthor of Civil Society and Political Theory. She serves as Associate Editor of Dissent, Constellations, and Philosophy and Social Criticism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691057400
• ISBN 13: 9780691057408
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Princeton University Press; https://press.princeton.edu/books; ; 7th Floor, New South Building; PRINCETON; NJ; 8544; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible