Public/Private: The Limitations of a Grand Dichotomy (1997)

Jeff Weintraub, "Public/Private: The Limitations of a Grand Dichotomy," The Responsive Community 7:2 (Spring 1997), pp. 13-24.

(Just click on the link and go to p. 13.)

=> This is condensed from part of the argument in:

Jeff Weintraub, "The Theory and Politics of the Public/Private Distinction," in Jeff Weintraub & Krishan Kumar, eds., Public and Private in Thought and Practice: Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy (University of Chicago Press, 1997).

The book's Preface is here.

Weintraub - The Theory and Politics of the Public/Private Distinction

[Update from 2007: I notice that the Google Books link now provides on-line access to some of the book's contents, including the Preface, part of my essay, and some of the other essays.]

--Jeff Weintraub