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53The Value of PrivacyPolity. 2004.This new book by Beate Rossler is a work of real quality and originality on an extremely topical issue: the issue of privacy and the relations between the private and the public. Rossler investigates the reasons why we value privacy and why we ought to value it. In the context of modern, liberal societies, Rossler develops a theory of the private which links privacy and autonomy in a constitutive way: privacy is a necessary condition to lead an autonomous life. The book develops a theory of free…Read more
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9001Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital WorldGeorgetown Law Technology Review 4 1-45. 2019.Privacy and surveillance scholars increasingly worry that data collectors can use the information they gather about our behaviors, preferences, interests, incomes, and so on to manipulate us. Yet what it means, exactly, to manipulate someone, and how we might systematically distinguish cases of manipulation from other forms of influence—such as persuasion and coercion—has not been thoroughly enough explored in light of the unprecedented capacities that information technologies and digital media …Read more
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38The Social Dimensions of Privacy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.Written by a select international group of leading privacy scholars, Social Dimensions of Privacy endorses and develops an innovative approach to privacy. By debating topical privacy cases in their specific research areas, the contributors explore the new privacy-sensitive areas: legal scholars and political theorists discuss the European and American approaches to privacy regulation; sociologists explore new forms of surveillance and privacy on social network sites; and philosophers revisit fem…Read more
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4519 Privacy and/in the Public SphereYearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2016 (1): 243-256. 2016.Talking about privacy in the public prima facie seems to be a contradiction: why should privacy have to play a role within the public sphere? What could possibly be private in the public? However, quite a number of theories of privacy conceptualize privacy as a protective shield which we carry with us wherever we are: respect for privacy in public then means, for instance, not listening in on private conversations between friends on the street or in a cafe. The most important form of privacy in …Read more
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19Sind Quoten notwendig – und sind sie gerecht?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 61 (5-6): 829-830. 2013.
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70The Value of PrivacyPolity Press. 2005.This new book by Beate Rossler is a work of real quality and originality on an extremely topical issue: the issue of privacy and the relations between the private and the public. Rossler investigates the reasons why we value privacy and why we ought to value it. In the context of modern, liberal societies, Rossler develops a theory of the private which links privacy and autonomy in a constitutive way: privacy is a necessary condition to lead an autonomous life. The book develops a theory of free…Read more
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51Authenticity of cultures and of personsPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (4-5): 445-455. 2012.In this article I argue that it does not make sense – either empirically or normatively – to speak of ‘authentic’ cultures. All we need when talking about cultures is a relatively weak concept that still carries enough normative weight to function as the meaningful background of a person’s identity, autonomy and good life. Discussing the authentic culture, I refer to the debates around the German Leitkultur as well as the Dutch populist movement as examples. However, I am interested not only in …Read more
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154New Ways of Thinking about PrivacyIn Anne Philips Bonnie Honig & John Dryzek (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, Oxford University Press. pp. 694-713. 2006.This article examines the new conceptualizing and thinking about privacy. It discusses older theories of privacy and explains why they became obsolete. It suggests that the reconceptualization of privacy was influenced by the developments in information technologies, radical changes in the relation between the sexes, and the intrusion of intimacy into the public realm. It describes the normative problems associated with privacy and differentiates the three dimensions of privacy: decisional priva…Read more
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Kantian Autonomy and its social Preconditions: On Axel Honneth's Das Recht der FreiheitKrisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy (1): 14-17. 2013.
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Autonomie und AmbivalenzIn von R. Forst (ed.), Sozialphilosophie und Kritik, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch. 2009.
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127Privacy and social interactionPhilosophy and Social Criticism 39 (8): 771-791. 2013.This article joins in and extends the contemporary debate on the right to privacy. We bring together two strands of the contemporary discourse on privacy. While we endorse the prevailing claim that norms of informational privacy protect the autonomy of individual subjects, we supplement it with an argument demonstrating that privacy is an integral element of the dynamics of all social relationships. This latter claim is developed in terms of the social role theory and substantiated by an analysi…Read more
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Menschenrechte und AutonomieIn Nico Scarano Mauricio Suárez (ed.), Die Moral der Wechselseitigkeit. Auseinandersetzung mit der Ethik Ernst Tugenhats, Beck. pp. 235-255. 2006.
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Autonomy, Paternalism, and Privacy: Some Remarks on Anita AllenAPA Newsletter Philosophy and Law 13 13-17. 2013.
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