Rites of Privacy and the Privacy Trade: On the Limits of Protection for the Self

208 Pages·2001·4.267 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Neill

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Rites of Privacy and the Privacy Trade
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Rites of Privacy and
the Privacy Trade
On the Limits of Protection for
the Sacred Self
elizabeth neill
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca
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© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2001
isbn 0-7735-2097-X (cloth)
isbn 0-7735-2113-5 (paper)
Legal deposit first quarter 2001
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
This book has been published with the help of a
grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences
Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the
financial support of the Government of Canada
through the Book Publishing Industry Development
Program (bpidp) for its activities. It also acknowl-
edges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
for its publishing program.
Excerpts from Essays on Moral Development, Vol. 2.
The Psychology of Moral Development by Laurence
Kohlberg, copyright © 1984 by Laurence Kohlberg.
Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins
Publishers, Inc.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Neill, Elizabeth, 1962–
Rites of privacy and the privacy trade: on the limits
of protection for the sacred self
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-7735-2097-X (bound)
isbn 0-7735-2113-5 (pbk.)
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With love to my late father,
Sam D. Neill,
who believed in this new millennium, and in me.
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Contents
Diagrams ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
1 The Ontological Structure of Natural Rights 13
2 Distinguishing between Privacy and Autonomy 48
3 Defending the Ontological Theory 73
4 Why Privacy? 106
5 Transgressing Privacy: The Theory Applied to
Trade 125
Conclusion 157
Notes 163
Bibliography 181
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Diagrams
1.1 The Dual Ontological Structure of Natural Rights 38
5.1 Rights and Transgressions 129
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