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Defenses of solitude :Justice Douglas, the right to privacy, and the preservation of the American wilderness (William O. Douglas).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Defenses of solitude :
Reminder of title:	Justice Douglas, the right to privacy, and the preservation of the American wilderness (William O. Douglas).
Author:	Hyman, Diana Rachel.
Description:	225 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Morton J. Horwitz.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-01, Section: A, page: 0195.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-01A.
Subject:	Law.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3076896
ISBN:	0493973583

Defenses of solitude :Justice Douglas, the right to privacy, and the preservation of the American wilderness (William O. Douglas).
Hyman, Diana Rachel.

Defenses of solitude :Justice Douglas, the right to privacy, and the preservation of the American wilderness (William O. Douglas). [electronic resource] - 225 p.

Adviser: Morton J. Horwitz.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2003.

Both environmentalism and privacy represent values and embody viewpoints that counter America's dominant intellectual traditions, but that nevertheless surface repeatedly throughout the history of the country. This project explores the right to privacy and the environmental movement through the thought of William Douglas. It is not a biography of Douglas, although it utilizes biographical information and archival research. Neither is it a history of privacy in the United States, nor of the environmental movement. Instead, it is a description and an explanation of the co-existence of these disparate ideas in the thought of one man, and their peaks at the same time in history.

ISBN: 0493973583Subjects--Topical Terms:

207600
Law.

Defenses of solitude :Justice Douglas, the right to privacy, and the preservation of the American wilderness (William O. Douglas).
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520 $a For United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, the right to be let alone underlay all other rights of our Constitution: without the right to be let alone, the other safeguards and guarantees of the American system were worthless. The concept of space where an individual could develop, both physically and intellectually, was a fundamental building block of the government of the United States as imagined by the founders.
520 $a This dissertation looks at Justice Douglas as a legal advocate for the right to privacy, and as one of the most prominent environmentalists of the twentieth century. His environmentalist activities and his belief in the right to be let alone were elements of the same impulse: the need to preserve space from governmental intrusion for the development of the integrated individual. Both realms fostered the autonomy of the individual, and the independent consciousness, which, for Douglas, were necessary ingredients for democracy. In addition, both spheres entailed values that were particularly American; for Douglas, the American identity was intertwined with the wilderness and with the right to privacy. The depletion of either signified a diminishment of the national character.
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