![]() But in today’s highly mediated world, we can see Arendt’s idea echoed in a ‘new’ language of privacy as a sphere of human intimacy and flourishing capable of operating within fluid semi-social arrangements and semi-public settings. And in Arendt’s later writings she moved away from this idea, becoming more intent on participation in public life. This idea of a social privacy found little acknowledgment in mid-century courts or, for that matter, in the Universal Declaration’s right to ‘privacy’. By now based in the United States, former refugee Hannah Arendt in 1949 foreshadowed an understanding of a ‘sphere of private life in which, through friendship, sympathy and love, we can cope more or less adequately with mere human existence’. ![]() ![]() This chapter focuses on how, under the intensely urbanised and transient conditions of modern life, with its appurtenant technologies of photography, cinema, telephone, radio and television, legal questions were being posed in the United States and other parts of the common law world about the possibility of privacy for those made subject to public gaze. ![]()
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