Public and Private in Thought and Practice

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Preface
1: The Theory and Politics of the Public/Private Distinction
Jeff Weintraub
2: "Two Different Sorts of Commerce" - Friendship and Strangership in Civil Society
Allan Silver
3: Nationalism and the Public Sphere
Craig Calhoun
4: Humankind as a System: Private and Public Agency at the Origins of Modern Liberalism
Daniela Gobetti
5: Rethinking Privacy: Autonomy, Identity, and the Abortion Controversy
Jean L. Cohen
6: The Displacement of Politics
Jean Bethke Elshtain
7: Public and Private in Theory and Practice: Some Implications of an Uncertain Boundary
Alan Wolfe
8: Home: The Promise and Predicament of Private Life at the End of the Twentieth Century
Krishan Kumar
9: From Public Housing to Private Communities: The Discipline of Design and the Materialization of the Public/Private Distinction in the Built Environment
David Brain
10: Rediscovering the Social: Visiting Practices in Antebellum New England and the Limits of the Public/Private Dichotomy
Karen V. Hansen
11: The Shadow of the Leviathan: Public and Private in Communist and Post-Communist Society
Marc Garcelon
12: Reveal and Dissimulate: A Genealogy of Private Life in Soviet Russia
Oleg Kharkhordin
Index