Transforming Privacy: A Transpersonal Philosophy of Rights (Praeger Series in Transformational Politics and Political Science) - Tapa dura

Scoglio, Stefano

 
9780275956073: Transforming Privacy: A Transpersonal Philosophy of Rights (Praeger Series in Transformational Politics and Political Science)
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ISBN 10: 0275956075 ISBN 13: 9780275956073
Editorial: Praeger, 1998

Sinopsis

Using an innovative history of the constitutional right to privacy, and inspired by Emersonian Justices like Brandeis and Douglas, this book rescues the meaning of privacy from prevalent liberal thinking by proposing a general theory of rights based on a spiritual-ecological jurisprudence tradition at the heart of American law. The right to privacy is a powerful, yet often overlooked tradition, whose main representatives are Justice Brandeis and Justice Douglas, both of whom translated into concretely legal and political ideas the philosophy of American thinkers like Emerson and Thoreau. In light of this historical understanding, the major constitutional cases relating to privacy, such as Griswold or Roe v. Wade, are given new interpretations. Through a radical reinterpretation of Mill's philosophy of liberty, and a comparison of that reinterpretation with the one of Brandeis, this book proposes a new general theory of rights, based on the valuation of privacy as a transformative context in which self-knowledge can emerge, giving birth to ethical and communal responsibility.

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Acerca del autor

STEFANO SCOGLIO is a Research Assistant at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is the founder and president of a successful health food company.

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Editorial
Praeger
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0275956075
ISBN 13 
9780275956073
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
270
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