Strangers and Intimates
Picador (Verlag)
978-1-5290-3417-2 (ISBN)
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A private life is a recent and hard-won achievement. But if we’re not careful, Strangers and Intimates warns, it will also be a temporary one.
In this groundbreaking history, Dr Tiffany Jenkins - academic, broadcaster and consultant on cultural policy - reveals that the dismantling of private life began long before the Internet and Big Tech. In Strangers and Intimates, she describes the fierce battles fought to achieve privacy in the West and shows how, following decades in which it has been relinquished, commercialised and ransacked, it is now in mortal danger.
At the heart of Strangers and Intimates are dramatic and moving stories: from the defence of personal conscience following the Reformation, to the national uproar in 1844 when the British government opened private letters sent to the exiled Italian republican Giuseppe Mazzini, and the feminist struggles declaring that ‘the personal is political’, to the modern-day ‘privacy paradox’ of Harry and Meghan, who reveal intimate details of their lives while demanding their privacy be respected.
Jenkins argues that private life is essential to individual and societal well-being and is now under siege from state and corporate surveillance, a culture of authenticity that encourages self-invasion, and a growing suspicion of privacy’s value, as it becomes a key battleground in the ‘culture wars’.
With illustrations throughout, this brilliantly readable work of original history demonstrates that a private life is a precious and sustaining resource that must be defended, before we realize, too late, what we’ve lost.
Dr Tiffany Jenkins is an Anglo-American writer, academic and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There. She is an honorary fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Edinburgh, and a former visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. Tiffany appears regularly on BBC Radio 4, including Saturday Review and Front Row. She wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series ‘A History of Secrecy’ and, most recently, ‘Contracts of Silence’, about the rise of non-disclosure agreements. She is a frequent commentator for The Guardian, The Observer, the Financial Times, The Scotsman (for which she was a weekly columnist) and The Spectator. She divides her time between London and Edinburgh.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.5.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5290-3417-5 / 1529034175 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5290-3417-2 / 9781529034172 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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