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In Pursuit of Privacy

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Description for In Pursuit of Privacy Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPQ; JPVH; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.

Judith Wagner DeCew provides a solid philosophical foundation for legal discussions of privacy by articulating and unifying diverse arguments on the right to privacy and on how it should be guaranteed in various contemporary contexts. Philosophers and legal theorists tend either to define privacy narrowly or to abandon privacy as conceptually incoherent, she claims. In order to assess how far privacy should extend, and determine how the wide range of specific cases can be reconciled, DeCew surveys the history of the notion of privacy as it first evolved in American tort law and constitutional law and then analyzes current characterizations.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484117
SKU
V9780801484117
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About Judith Wagner Decew
Judith Wagner DeCew is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clark University.

Reviews for In Pursuit of Privacy
Decew makes powerful and persuasive arguments.... She uses techniques of counterexample, isolation of generalizable principles, analysis, and refutation to fashion from the messy confusion of situational facts a legal concept of privacy that reflects common values and safeguards individuals' integrity.
Andrea Nye
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In Pursuit of Privacy can serve as an excellent introduction to privacy issues in ... Read more

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