Mark S. Cladis
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195125542
- eISBN:
- 9780199834082
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195125541.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
In Part I (chs 1–6), I have charted the contours of a Fall that seriously wounded us. Now, in Part II (chs 7–11), I investigate the means of redemption. I have mapped Rousseau's soteriological ...
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In Part I (chs 1–6), I have charted the contours of a Fall that seriously wounded us. Now, in Part II (chs 7–11), I investigate the means of redemption. I have mapped Rousseau's soteriological strategies on to what I call the five paths to redemption. Ch. 7 investigates what I call the extreme public path, which is best represented by Rousseau's On the Government of Poland. On the extreme public path, the private life is subsumed under the public. A form of extreme patriotism, this extreme path seeks to cast the individual's soul into the collective soul of the political body. On this path there is no distinction between virtue and patriotism, between morality and politics, between society and the state. Although there are some merits to this path, in the end its toll is heavy: the systematic elimination of the private life.Less
In Part I (chs 1–6), I have charted the contours of a Fall that seriously wounded us. Now, in Part II (chs 7–11), I investigate the means of redemption. I have mapped Rousseau's soteriological strategies on to what I call the five paths to redemption. Ch. 7 investigates what I call the extreme public path, which is best represented by Rousseau's On the Government of Poland. On the extreme public path, the private life is subsumed under the public. A form of extreme patriotism, this extreme path seeks to cast the individual's soul into the collective soul of the political body. On this path there is no distinction between virtue and patriotism, between morality and politics, between society and the state. Although there are some merits to this path, in the end its toll is heavy: the systematic elimination of the private life.
Ekaterina Pravilova
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691159058
- eISBN:
- 9781400850266
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691159058.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This chapter discusses the issue of authorial rights and privacy. It considers Tolstoy, who represented a unique example of a writer who voluntarily doomed himself to the torture of private life ...
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This chapter discusses the issue of authorial rights and privacy. It considers Tolstoy, who represented a unique example of a writer who voluntarily doomed himself to the torture of private life devoid of privacy. During his lifetime, his family estate was turned into a museum; his every step and word were immediately recorded, transmitted by telegraph wires, and divulged by the press. His death was watched, commented on, and discussed in newspapers and on the street. The chapter asks, what is more valuable for society—to secure the personal rights of authors and their relatives or to satisfy the needs of science and public education? Finding the balance between these exigencies was at the center of the debates on copyright in the press and—when plans for the new law on copyright entered the legislative process—the Third State Duma, then followed by the State Council.Less
This chapter discusses the issue of authorial rights and privacy. It considers Tolstoy, who represented a unique example of a writer who voluntarily doomed himself to the torture of private life devoid of privacy. During his lifetime, his family estate was turned into a museum; his every step and word were immediately recorded, transmitted by telegraph wires, and divulged by the press. His death was watched, commented on, and discussed in newspapers and on the street. The chapter asks, what is more valuable for society—to secure the personal rights of authors and their relatives or to satisfy the needs of science and public education? Finding the balance between these exigencies was at the center of the debates on copyright in the press and—when plans for the new law on copyright entered the legislative process—the Third State Duma, then followed by the State Council.
Peter Fleming
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199547159
- eISBN:
- 9780191720024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547159.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, HRM / IR
This chapter outlines the emergence of a new turn in managerial discourse and practice that calls on employees to express their authentic identities. It briefly defines personal authenticity and its ...
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This chapter outlines the emergence of a new turn in managerial discourse and practice that calls on employees to express their authentic identities. It briefly defines personal authenticity and its historical significance in western philosophical thought before exploring it evocation in work organizations. The chapter argues that the managerial exhortation for employees to ‘just be themselves’ is both a continuation of the neo-human relations attempt to adjust employees to the labour process, and a break with that tradition. The difference lies in the importance of non-work themes being celebrated in the sphere of production. An empirical example is then examined. The chapter concludes by demonstrating how this managerial ideology represents a more insidious form of control rather than the demise of control. The politics of authenticity comes to the fore in the analysis.Less
This chapter outlines the emergence of a new turn in managerial discourse and practice that calls on employees to express their authentic identities. It briefly defines personal authenticity and its historical significance in western philosophical thought before exploring it evocation in work organizations. The chapter argues that the managerial exhortation for employees to ‘just be themselves’ is both a continuation of the neo-human relations attempt to adjust employees to the labour process, and a break with that tradition. The difference lies in the importance of non-work themes being celebrated in the sphere of production. An empirical example is then examined. The chapter concludes by demonstrating how this managerial ideology represents a more insidious form of control rather than the demise of control. The politics of authenticity comes to the fore in the analysis.
Angelica Goodden
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199238095
- eISBN:
- 9780191716669
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238095.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This introductory chapter sets the scene for Staël's hostility to Napoleon, her daring to write despite periodically suffering from the characteristically female ‘anxiety of authorship’, and the ...
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This introductory chapter sets the scene for Staël's hostility to Napoleon, her daring to write despite periodically suffering from the characteristically female ‘anxiety of authorship’, and the split between public and private life that helped define her existence. It describes how her besetting fear of boredom propels her into the chancy existence of the literary, political, and moral dissident, and situates her exile in the context of others — sexual as well as literary. Does Staël connive at the repression of woman or openly challenge it? Why does such an obvious feminist seem to advocate an acceptance of woman's inferior status? Napoleon, often seen as her greatest foe, grudgingly admires her: ‘She'll last’.Less
This introductory chapter sets the scene for Staël's hostility to Napoleon, her daring to write despite periodically suffering from the characteristically female ‘anxiety of authorship’, and the split between public and private life that helped define her existence. It describes how her besetting fear of boredom propels her into the chancy existence of the literary, political, and moral dissident, and situates her exile in the context of others — sexual as well as literary. Does Staël connive at the repression of woman or openly challenge it? Why does such an obvious feminist seem to advocate an acceptance of woman's inferior status? Napoleon, often seen as her greatest foe, grudgingly admires her: ‘She'll last’.
GREG WALKER
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264942
- eISBN:
- 9780191754111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264942.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter analyzes how the cinema and television have rendered Henry VIII. It considers films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and television ...
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This chapter analyzes how the cinema and television have rendered Henry VIII. It considers films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and television shows such as The Six Wives of Henry VIII and The Tudors. It suggests that Henry has generally been the protagonist in the dramas in which he has appeared, and it has been his experiences and his emotional journey, that are spectators' principal concern.Less
This chapter analyzes how the cinema and television have rendered Henry VIII. It considers films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and television shows such as The Six Wives of Henry VIII and The Tudors. It suggests that Henry has generally been the protagonist in the dramas in which he has appeared, and it has been his experiences and his emotional journey, that are spectators' principal concern.
P. M. Fraser
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264287
- eISBN:
- 9780191753978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264287.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter considers the various usages of the ethnic, the expression essentially of the foreigner in both public and private life, from the fifth century bc onwards. It shows that after the fifth ...
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This chapter considers the various usages of the ethnic, the expression essentially of the foreigner in both public and private life, from the fifth century bc onwards. It shows that after the fifth century bc the use of the ethnic in entries in public records, which were recognised to have international validity, might vary, even within a single document, without good cause, or at least without an evident cause. This substantiates the view expressed concerning other types of evidence, that Greek protocol — the use of the criteria treated in this and the preceding chapters — was consistent only with regard to matters within the traditional framework of the individual poleis themselves, and to publicly proclaimed honours such as proxeny-decrees, while still conforming in the broadest terms to certain inherited practices. At the same time allowance must be made for a considerable amount of variation, due to causes which frequently remain unknown.Less
This chapter considers the various usages of the ethnic, the expression essentially of the foreigner in both public and private life, from the fifth century bc onwards. It shows that after the fifth century bc the use of the ethnic in entries in public records, which were recognised to have international validity, might vary, even within a single document, without good cause, or at least without an evident cause. This substantiates the view expressed concerning other types of evidence, that Greek protocol — the use of the criteria treated in this and the preceding chapters — was consistent only with regard to matters within the traditional framework of the individual poleis themselves, and to publicly proclaimed honours such as proxeny-decrees, while still conforming in the broadest terms to certain inherited practices. At the same time allowance must be made for a considerable amount of variation, due to causes which frequently remain unknown.
Geoffrey Campbell Cocks
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199695676
- eISBN:
- 9780191738616
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695676.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The Third Reich inherited a highly organized German health system. The Nazis also inherited a populace suffering from a wide variety of illnesses and diseases due to longstanding social and economic ...
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The Third Reich inherited a highly organized German health system. The Nazis also inherited a populace suffering from a wide variety of illnesses and diseases due to longstanding social and economic inequalities and a series of national catastrophes after 1914. Health improved after the Great Depression, but the Third Reich worsened public health for the sake of rearmament. While Jews suffered immediately and perpetually from official persecution, ‘Aryan’ Germans responded to Nazism with a self-centred mixture of enthusiasm, reserve, and anxiety that precluded empathy with the regime's victims. The Nazis preached collective racial identity, forced sterilization upon ‘inferior’ individuals, and indulged individual pleasure and achievement. Health discourse consisted of official tales of healing and health, propaganda against Jewish physicians, and popular preoccupation with their own health and that of their leaders.Less
The Third Reich inherited a highly organized German health system. The Nazis also inherited a populace suffering from a wide variety of illnesses and diseases due to longstanding social and economic inequalities and a series of national catastrophes after 1914. Health improved after the Great Depression, but the Third Reich worsened public health for the sake of rearmament. While Jews suffered immediately and perpetually from official persecution, ‘Aryan’ Germans responded to Nazism with a self-centred mixture of enthusiasm, reserve, and anxiety that precluded empathy with the regime's victims. The Nazis preached collective racial identity, forced sterilization upon ‘inferior’ individuals, and indulged individual pleasure and achievement. Health discourse consisted of official tales of healing and health, propaganda against Jewish physicians, and popular preoccupation with their own health and that of their leaders.
KRISTINA MILNOR
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199235728
- eISBN:
- 9780191712883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235728.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
There is a paradox evident in the ideals and ideologies of gender which prevailed in the early Roman empire during the reign of Augustus. In Roman society, women were traditionally associated with ...
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There is a paradox evident in the ideals and ideologies of gender which prevailed in the early Roman empire during the reign of Augustus. In Roman society, women were traditionally associated with domestic life, their highest tasks confined within the household, and their most praiseworthy roles thought to be those of wife and mother. In the Augustan period, however, women were able to take on real and important roles in the civic sphere without compromising their perceived domesticity. This book explores the creation and consequences of this paradox and identifies the conflicts and contradictions which adhere to the position of elite Roman women during the first years of Julio-Claudian rule. The book looks at female domesticity as one of the principles which made Roman politics work, the separation of public life from private life, and the image of female domesticity in book 8 of Virgil's poem Aeneid.Less
There is a paradox evident in the ideals and ideologies of gender which prevailed in the early Roman empire during the reign of Augustus. In Roman society, women were traditionally associated with domestic life, their highest tasks confined within the household, and their most praiseworthy roles thought to be those of wife and mother. In the Augustan period, however, women were able to take on real and important roles in the civic sphere without compromising their perceived domesticity. This book explores the creation and consequences of this paradox and identifies the conflicts and contradictions which adhere to the position of elite Roman women during the first years of Julio-Claudian rule. The book looks at female domesticity as one of the principles which made Roman politics work, the separation of public life from private life, and the image of female domesticity in book 8 of Virgil's poem Aeneid.
April London
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198182887
- eISBN:
- 9780191673900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182887.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature, 18th-century Literature
The dedication of fiction to political purposes in fact defines the literary production of both radicals and conservatives in the 1790s as they contested for the allegiance of an audience envisioned ...
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The dedication of fiction to political purposes in fact defines the literary production of both radicals and conservatives in the 1790s as they contested for the allegiance of an audience envisioned as peculiarly susceptible to calls for institutional change. Jane West’s determination to contrive fictions capable of ‘rousing the stronger energies of the mind’ in order to defeat Jacobin principles, however, stands in potential conflict with the idealization of private life and female inwardness her works enforce — an ideal centred on the notion that ‘virtues shunned observation, and only courted the silent plaudit of conscience’. In each of the novels written in the 1790s — The Advantages of Education: or, the History of Maria Williams (1793), A Gossip’s Story (1796), and A Tale of the Times (1799) — the conflict is resolved by invoking the ‘muse of history’ in aid of ‘the muse of fiction’. Constructing the discourse of private life in accordance with the model afforded by linear history allows her obliquely to confirm its consonance with the forces of tradition and continuity. But investing the quotidian with exemplary status also, and more problematically, grants to culturally marginalized women political significance. The desire to harmonize these competing impulses shapes West’s commitment to the education of her female readers. This chapter considers how attention to genre and history finally enables West to address the intersections of private and public in terms consistent with her advocacy of ‘things as they are’.Less
The dedication of fiction to political purposes in fact defines the literary production of both radicals and conservatives in the 1790s as they contested for the allegiance of an audience envisioned as peculiarly susceptible to calls for institutional change. Jane West’s determination to contrive fictions capable of ‘rousing the stronger energies of the mind’ in order to defeat Jacobin principles, however, stands in potential conflict with the idealization of private life and female inwardness her works enforce — an ideal centred on the notion that ‘virtues shunned observation, and only courted the silent plaudit of conscience’. In each of the novels written in the 1790s — The Advantages of Education: or, the History of Maria Williams (1793), A Gossip’s Story (1796), and A Tale of the Times (1799) — the conflict is resolved by invoking the ‘muse of history’ in aid of ‘the muse of fiction’. Constructing the discourse of private life in accordance with the model afforded by linear history allows her obliquely to confirm its consonance with the forces of tradition and continuity. But investing the quotidian with exemplary status also, and more problematically, grants to culturally marginalized women political significance. The desire to harmonize these competing impulses shapes West’s commitment to the education of her female readers. This chapter considers how attention to genre and history finally enables West to address the intersections of private and public in terms consistent with her advocacy of ‘things as they are’.
Angelica Goodden
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199238095
- eISBN:
- 9780191716669
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238095.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This book describes Staël's life in exile as the crucial experience shaping her literary and political identity. It relates her inner, private exile as an oppressed and thwarted woman in a society ...
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This book describes Staël's life in exile as the crucial experience shaping her literary and political identity. It relates her inner, private exile as an oppressed and thwarted woman in a society with restrictive and conventional norms of decorum to the outer, public exile of one who suffered banishment as a result of daring to criticize authoritarian regimes. This tension made her a living paradox in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A member of the downtrodden sisterhood who longed to be politically active, but knew that her sex excluded her in practical terms from the world stage, she was torn between the need to appear a ‘proper lady’ and the desire to write in socially and intellectually daring (or ‘male’) ways. Yet although she was regarded by her political masters as simply too dangerous to be tolerated in France, her subversive writings — particularly the novels Delphine and Corinne and the Romantic digest De l'Allemagne — made her appear as much a threat outside her homeland as within it, an irritant to despotic political regimes, and a cosmopolitan who lived, socialized, and observed wherever she went (England, Germany, Italy, and Russia) and afterwards wrote to explosive effect about the experience. Exile served only to give this European celebrity, the friend of statesmen and soldiers as well as of literary figures like Goethe, Schiller, Byron, and Fanny Burney, a public voice that infuriated her political antagonists, increasing her determination to escape entrapment and proclaim the virtues of freedom and enlightenment wherever she went.Less
This book describes Staël's life in exile as the crucial experience shaping her literary and political identity. It relates her inner, private exile as an oppressed and thwarted woman in a society with restrictive and conventional norms of decorum to the outer, public exile of one who suffered banishment as a result of daring to criticize authoritarian regimes. This tension made her a living paradox in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A member of the downtrodden sisterhood who longed to be politically active, but knew that her sex excluded her in practical terms from the world stage, she was torn between the need to appear a ‘proper lady’ and the desire to write in socially and intellectually daring (or ‘male’) ways. Yet although she was regarded by her political masters as simply too dangerous to be tolerated in France, her subversive writings — particularly the novels Delphine and Corinne and the Romantic digest De l'Allemagne — made her appear as much a threat outside her homeland as within it, an irritant to despotic political regimes, and a cosmopolitan who lived, socialized, and observed wherever she went (England, Germany, Italy, and Russia) and afterwards wrote to explosive effect about the experience. Exile served only to give this European celebrity, the friend of statesmen and soldiers as well as of literary figures like Goethe, Schiller, Byron, and Fanny Burney, a public voice that infuriated her political antagonists, increasing her determination to escape entrapment and proclaim the virtues of freedom and enlightenment wherever she went.
Theodore Zeldin
- Published in print:
- 1977
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198221258
- eISBN:
- 9780191678424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198221258.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Private lives have, on the whole, been an area into which historians have not penetrated, and certainly not systematically. This is due partly to tradition, to a convention inherited from public ...
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Private lives have, on the whole, been an area into which historians have not penetrated, and certainly not systematically. This is due partly to tradition, to a convention inherited from public figures who have mutually conceded each other immunity outside the arena of politics and war. Any approach to a study of private lives must first explain what people's attitude to the subject was, since the facts about them can be seen only through this veil that envelops them. There is no book about biography in France in this period, but it is important to investigate its prestige and its function in the writing of this period. Secondly, we need to discover the relationship between biography and the way character and personality were interpreted. What, in other words, were the psychological assumptions that biographers made, and how did the development of scientific and medical knowledge alter views about motivation and behaviour? Psychology in the mid-nineteenth century was still largely a branch of philosophy, and philosophy — or at least the ‘philosophical approach’ — was the principal enemy of biography.Less
Private lives have, on the whole, been an area into which historians have not penetrated, and certainly not systematically. This is due partly to tradition, to a convention inherited from public figures who have mutually conceded each other immunity outside the arena of politics and war. Any approach to a study of private lives must first explain what people's attitude to the subject was, since the facts about them can be seen only through this veil that envelops them. There is no book about biography in France in this period, but it is important to investigate its prestige and its function in the writing of this period. Secondly, we need to discover the relationship between biography and the way character and personality were interpreted. What, in other words, were the psychological assumptions that biographers made, and how did the development of scientific and medical knowledge alter views about motivation and behaviour? Psychology in the mid-nineteenth century was still largely a branch of philosophy, and philosophy — or at least the ‘philosophical approach’ — was the principal enemy of biography.
Mike W. Martin
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195133257
- eISBN:
- 9780199848706
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195133257.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter discusses questions about human nature and motivation that underlie most of the topics in subsequent chapters. Is self-regard the only human motive, or are we genuinely capable of being ...
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This chapter discusses questions about human nature and motivation that underlie most of the topics in subsequent chapters. Is self-regard the only human motive, or are we genuinely capable of being motivated by moral ideals? If we are capable of concern for ideals, is it realistic to expect ideals to play an extensive role in our work, beyond death-bed gestures for example? Are there perhaps reasons for restricting personal ideals to private life? The discussion begins by contrasting two sharply opposing views, articulated by Adam Smith and Albert Schweitzer, concerning how personal values relate to work. Ideals contribute to choices of professions, whether directly as with Schweitzer or more indirectly. Frequently a profession awakens, augments, and unfolds patterns of caring already present in personal life. Inherently meaningful work is, by definition, rich in intrinsic satisfactions from goods internal to the work. Sociologist Robert Bellah and his colleagues distinguished three conceptions of work — as a job, a career, and a calling or vocation. This chapter also examines the relationship between professional ethics and economics.Less
This chapter discusses questions about human nature and motivation that underlie most of the topics in subsequent chapters. Is self-regard the only human motive, or are we genuinely capable of being motivated by moral ideals? If we are capable of concern for ideals, is it realistic to expect ideals to play an extensive role in our work, beyond death-bed gestures for example? Are there perhaps reasons for restricting personal ideals to private life? The discussion begins by contrasting two sharply opposing views, articulated by Adam Smith and Albert Schweitzer, concerning how personal values relate to work. Ideals contribute to choices of professions, whether directly as with Schweitzer or more indirectly. Frequently a profession awakens, augments, and unfolds patterns of caring already present in personal life. Inherently meaningful work is, by definition, rich in intrinsic satisfactions from goods internal to the work. Sociologist Robert Bellah and his colleagues distinguished three conceptions of work — as a job, a career, and a calling or vocation. This chapter also examines the relationship between professional ethics and economics.
KRISTINA MILNOR
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199235728
- eISBN:
- 9780191712883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235728.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
The age of the triumvirs refers to the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar which marked the beginning of Octavian's rise to the pinnacle of political power. This chapter considers the ...
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The age of the triumvirs refers to the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar which marked the beginning of Octavian's rise to the pinnacle of political power. This chapter considers the representation in imperial prose of domestic life during the civil wars which immediately preceded the age of Augustus in the early Roman empire. Using both traditional historical sources, such as Appian and Cassius Dio, and the rhetorical handbooks of Valerius Maximus and Seneca the Elder, this book argues that stories of domestic virtue and vice during the civil wars appear as ‘real’ history rather than as a means to characterise the late republic as a time when private life was tragically invaded by politics. In this way, the social conflict in the Roman state which immediately preceded the transition to empire is seen as fundamentally concerned with the relationship between private and public life, a crisis in domesticity which supposedly necessitated the political concern with domestic values under the early Roman empire.Less
The age of the triumvirs refers to the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar which marked the beginning of Octavian's rise to the pinnacle of political power. This chapter considers the representation in imperial prose of domestic life during the civil wars which immediately preceded the age of Augustus in the early Roman empire. Using both traditional historical sources, such as Appian and Cassius Dio, and the rhetorical handbooks of Valerius Maximus and Seneca the Elder, this book argues that stories of domestic virtue and vice during the civil wars appear as ‘real’ history rather than as a means to characterise the late republic as a time when private life was tragically invaded by politics. In this way, the social conflict in the Roman state which immediately preceded the transition to empire is seen as fundamentally concerned with the relationship between private and public life, a crisis in domesticity which supposedly necessitated the political concern with domestic values under the early Roman empire.
Neil MacCormick
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780198267911
- eISBN:
- 9780191714832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198267911.003.0014
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter argues that just as law interacts especially closely with politics when public law is in focus, so it interacts especially closely with economics when private law is in focus. The legal ...
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This chapter argues that just as law interacts especially closely with politics when public law is in focus, so it interacts especially closely with economics when private law is in focus. The legal system, the political system, and the economic system together sustain, or perhaps constitute, the state and civil society. The chapter has five main sub-themes. The first concerns private law in its narrower sense, as the law of private life and private relationships. These relationships themselves belong within a broader set of concerns, those relating to the ‘private sector’ of the economy. The chapter considers private law in this broader sense, and how law and economy interact. Some general reflections on the institutions of private law are provided, with particular reference to the law of torts or delict and the forms of corrective justice involved in that. Finally, law, economy, and information are discussed, focusing particularly on the topic of intellectual property.Less
This chapter argues that just as law interacts especially closely with politics when public law is in focus, so it interacts especially closely with economics when private law is in focus. The legal system, the political system, and the economic system together sustain, or perhaps constitute, the state and civil society. The chapter has five main sub-themes. The first concerns private law in its narrower sense, as the law of private life and private relationships. These relationships themselves belong within a broader set of concerns, those relating to the ‘private sector’ of the economy. The chapter considers private law in this broader sense, and how law and economy interact. Some general reflections on the institutions of private law are provided, with particular reference to the law of torts or delict and the forms of corrective justice involved in that. Finally, law, economy, and information are discussed, focusing particularly on the topic of intellectual property.
KRISTINA MILNOR
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199235728
- eISBN:
- 9780191712883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235728.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter considers privacy and domesticity in the early Roman empire during the reign of Augustus. One of the powerful symbols of Augustan culture is domesticity, an idea which may articulate ...
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This chapter considers privacy and domesticity in the early Roman empire during the reign of Augustus. One of the powerful symbols of Augustan culture is domesticity, an idea which may articulate some real historical truth about the person of the first princeps and how he lived, but also serves to mask a deeper and much less ‘personal’ politics. The chapter looks at gender in Augustan space, particularly that of the imperial house on the Palatine hill, through a network of interrelated texts and structures. The porticoes of Livia and Octavia, Cicero's de Domo Sua, and Augustus' own autobiography reveal some of the ways in which women were used in conversations about, and constructions of, the urban environment as a means of mediating between civic and domestic ideals. Thus, women played an indispensable symbolic role in the emergence into public discourse of an ‘imperial’ private life.Less
This chapter considers privacy and domesticity in the early Roman empire during the reign of Augustus. One of the powerful symbols of Augustan culture is domesticity, an idea which may articulate some real historical truth about the person of the first princeps and how he lived, but also serves to mask a deeper and much less ‘personal’ politics. The chapter looks at gender in Augustan space, particularly that of the imperial house on the Palatine hill, through a network of interrelated texts and structures. The porticoes of Livia and Octavia, Cicero's de Domo Sua, and Augustus' own autobiography reveal some of the ways in which women were used in conversations about, and constructions of, the urban environment as a means of mediating between civic and domestic ideals. Thus, women played an indispensable symbolic role in the emergence into public discourse of an ‘imperial’ private life.
KRISTINA MILNOR
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199235728
- eISBN:
- 9780191712883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235728.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter examines the de Architectura of Vitruvius, an architect during the reign of Augustus in the early Roman empire, and argues that the absence of privacy and gender from his descriptions of ...
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This chapter examines the de Architectura of Vitruvius, an architect during the reign of Augustus in the early Roman empire, and argues that the absence of privacy and gender from his descriptions of the Roman house cannot be separated from the ethnographic tropes which pervade his book on domestic architecture. It is clear that Vitruvius understood the patterns of Roman building for, and behaviour within, the home as inextricably linked to Roman national character. This chapter maintains that Vitruvius must not be understood as providing a faithful blueprint for the architecture of social relations within the Roman home, but rather as reflecting the idea prevalent in Augustan culture that the structure of domesticity could be used to read imperial culture. The de Architectura demonstrates how the advent of Augustus changed the representational relations of gender, power, culture, and private life.Less
This chapter examines the de Architectura of Vitruvius, an architect during the reign of Augustus in the early Roman empire, and argues that the absence of privacy and gender from his descriptions of the Roman house cannot be separated from the ethnographic tropes which pervade his book on domestic architecture. It is clear that Vitruvius understood the patterns of Roman building for, and behaviour within, the home as inextricably linked to Roman national character. This chapter maintains that Vitruvius must not be understood as providing a faithful blueprint for the architecture of social relations within the Roman home, but rather as reflecting the idea prevalent in Augustan culture that the structure of domesticity could be used to read imperial culture. The de Architectura demonstrates how the advent of Augustus changed the representational relations of gender, power, culture, and private life.
BRIAN HARRISON
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207108
- eISBN:
- 9780191677496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207108.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter examines the history of privacy and private life in modern Britain. Privacy rests upon a Judaeo-Christian respect for the individual's ...
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This chapter examines the history of privacy and private life in modern Britain. Privacy rests upon a Judaeo-Christian respect for the individual's dignity and autonomy. It was given importance in Britain because a pluralistic culture emerged from a Protestant Christianity that cultivated a direct relationship between individual and creator, and because free-market industrialization enhanced this pluralism. In addition, industrialization encouraged social ascent through the permeable class barriers of a hierarchical society.Less
This chapter examines the history of privacy and private life in modern Britain. Privacy rests upon a Judaeo-Christian respect for the individual's dignity and autonomy. It was given importance in Britain because a pluralistic culture emerged from a Protestant Christianity that cultivated a direct relationship between individual and creator, and because free-market industrialization enhanced this pluralism. In addition, industrialization encouraged social ascent through the permeable class barriers of a hierarchical society.
John Eekelaar
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199535422
- eISBN:
- 9780191707384
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199535422.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
Starting from the observation that the law constructs a reality which may not correspond to ‘physical’ truth, this chapter starts by considering the way kin relationships have been designed to ...
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Starting from the observation that the law constructs a reality which may not correspond to ‘physical’ truth, this chapter starts by considering the way kin relationships have been designed to project a social order from one generation to successor generations. Legal concepts of legitimacy, illegitimacy, and the circumstances in which paternity is recognized subordinate recognizing biological reality to upholding a social order. But, while arguing that children's right to know their identity generally demands that their biological origins should be known, the chapter maintains that parents do not have an equivalent right to develop a relationship with a child for no other reason than that they are the child's parent, even though the parent may have a duty to support the child. The argument is developed in the context of the rights to family and private life in the European Convention on Human Rights.Less
Starting from the observation that the law constructs a reality which may not correspond to ‘physical’ truth, this chapter starts by considering the way kin relationships have been designed to project a social order from one generation to successor generations. Legal concepts of legitimacy, illegitimacy, and the circumstances in which paternity is recognized subordinate recognizing biological reality to upholding a social order. But, while arguing that children's right to know their identity generally demands that their biological origins should be known, the chapter maintains that parents do not have an equivalent right to develop a relationship with a child for no other reason than that they are the child's parent, even though the parent may have a duty to support the child. The argument is developed in the context of the rights to family and private life in the European Convention on Human Rights.
Mattison Mines
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520084780
- eISBN:
- 9780520914599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520084780.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter focuses on civic individuality in public and private lives in George Town. It explains that Tamils consider the individuality of different people to be of unequal worth and judge the ...
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This chapter focuses on civic individuality in public and private lives in George Town. It explains that Tamils consider the individuality of different people to be of unequal worth and judge the individuality of other person based on what they known about him or her within a given social context. In addition, civic individuality is circumscribed in Tamil culture by ideas that stress altruism. The chapter relates the relevant personal narratives of C. Sivakumar, S. Lakshmi, C. Viswanathan, and M. Tangavelu.Less
This chapter focuses on civic individuality in public and private lives in George Town. It explains that Tamils consider the individuality of different people to be of unequal worth and judge the individuality of other person based on what they known about him or her within a given social context. In addition, civic individuality is circumscribed in Tamil culture by ideas that stress altruism. The chapter relates the relevant personal narratives of C. Sivakumar, S. Lakshmi, C. Viswanathan, and M. Tangavelu.
Stefan Trechsel
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199271207
- eISBN:
- 9780191709623
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199271207.003.0020
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Criminal Law and Criminology
Most of the measures of coercion applied in criminal proceedings constitute intrusions into the private sphere of the suspect and sometimes also third persons. Another area which is particularly ...
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Most of the measures of coercion applied in criminal proceedings constitute intrusions into the private sphere of the suspect and sometimes also third persons. Another area which is particularly relevant is the interception of communications and the censorship of correspondence. This can take many different forms depending on the type of communication and can involve written correspondence, telephone conversations, or electronic communication such as e-mail. Conversations can be recorded and behaviour can be subjected to surveillance through the use of devices able to record sound and/or images. This chapter discusses the interference with the right to respect for private life, the basic structure of the protection of private life, the requirement of lawfulness, surveillance and interception of communications, interception of written correspondence, the case-law, principles concerning prisoners' correspondence, technical surveillance, storage of data, undercover agents, search and seizure, and protection of property.Less
Most of the measures of coercion applied in criminal proceedings constitute intrusions into the private sphere of the suspect and sometimes also third persons. Another area which is particularly relevant is the interception of communications and the censorship of correspondence. This can take many different forms depending on the type of communication and can involve written correspondence, telephone conversations, or electronic communication such as e-mail. Conversations can be recorded and behaviour can be subjected to surveillance through the use of devices able to record sound and/or images. This chapter discusses the interference with the right to respect for private life, the basic structure of the protection of private life, the requirement of lawfulness, surveillance and interception of communications, interception of written correspondence, the case-law, principles concerning prisoners' correspondence, technical surveillance, storage of data, undercover agents, search and seizure, and protection of property.
