監視、文学と人間の自由 The Watchman in Pieces : Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood

Rosen, David/ Santesso, Aaron

Yale University Press（2013/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 376 p.／サイズ 10 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780300155419
• DDC分類 809.93355

基本説明

Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have develped together, as kindred modern practices.

Full Description

Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. The authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation strategies have driven innovations in literature; literature, in turn, has provided a laboratory and forum for the way we think about surveillance and privacy. Ultimately, they contend that the habits of mind cultivated by literature make rational and self-aware participation in contemporary surveillance environments possible. In a society increasingly dominated by interlocking surveillance systems, these habits of mind are consequently necessary for fully realized liberal citizenship.