ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses upon Pateman's attack upon self-ownership. It outlines her arguments on Locke and then draws out the privacy implications of her position. The political and ontological aspects of Locke's thought are often treated separately, with theorists concentrating on either but not both of The Two Treatises of Government, or An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Coleman analyses the way in which Locke is an important figure in the transition between pre-modern and modern conceptions of self. Balibar also draws together Locke's work to produce a subtle analysis of the concept of self, describing Locke. Locke provides an image of a self that can change through the re-evaluation of memories as well as through loss of memory. This differs from Cavarero's narrative view of the self in which the life story is provided by significant others. The chapter discusses how Lockean self can be viewed as the emergence of a self with an interest.
