Volume 32, Number 7 · April 25, 1985
Private Faces and Public Places
By Bernard Williams
Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History
by Barrington Moore Jr.
M.E. Sharpe, 328 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The more time that citizens spend thinking about public matters, Rousseau said, and the less about their own private affairs, the better a society is. One good test of political sentiments is whether you find this thought invigorating or repellent. Either reaction to it, however, implies that you have an understanding of the contrast, some conception of the private.
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