Editing Private sphere (section)

==Critical theory==

[[Martin Heidegger]] argued that it is only in the private sphere that one can be one's authentic self, as opposed to the impersonal and identikit [[Generalised other|They]] of the public realm.<ref>J. Collins and H. Selina eds., ''Heidegger for Beginners'' (1998) pp. 64–9</ref>

Contrary to Heidegger, [[Hannah Arendt]] argued that (public) [[The Human Condition (Arendt book)#V – Action|action]] is the only way to manifest "who" somebody is, as opposed to describing "what" they are. She argued that only in public realm it is possible to fully express oneself. <ref>Hannah Arendt, ''The Human Condition'' (1958)</ref>

[[Richard Sennett]] opposed what he saw as the Romantic idealization of the private realm of intimate relations, as opposed to the public sphere of action at a distance.<ref>[[Richard Sennett]], ''The Fall of Public Man'' (1976)</ref>

[[Deleuze and Guattari]] saw [[postmodernism]] as challenging the traditional split between private and public spheres, producing instead the supersaturated space of immediate presence and media-scrutiny of [[late capitalism]].<ref>M. Hardt/K. Weeks eds., ''The Jameson Reader'' (2000) pp. 329–30, 280</ref>