The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Meagher, Sharon M.; Biehl, Joseph S.; Noll, Samantha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An outstanding reference source to this subject and the first collection of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers in environmental philosophy, aesthetics and political philosophy, geography, urban studies, sociology, and political science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317400639
• Artikelnr.: 57501891

Autorenporträt

Sharon M. Meagher is the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College, USA. Samantha Noll is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University, USA, and a bioethicist with the Functional Genomics Initiative. Joseph S. Biehl is the founder and Executive Director of Gotham Philosophical Society, Inc., a federal 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting philosophy in New York City, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Samantha Noll, Sharon Meagher, and Joseph BiehlPart 1: Urban PhilosophiesSection 1: Historical Philosophical Engagements with Cities1. Plato's City-Soul Analogy: The Slow Train to Ordinary Virtue Nathan Nicol2. Philosophers and the City in Early Modern Europe Ferenc Hörcher3. Pragmatic Engagement in the City: Philosophy as a Means for Catalyzing Collective, Creative Capacity (Lessons from John Dewey and Jane Addams) Danielle Lake4. Back to the Cave Joseph S. BiehlSection 2: Modern and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of the City5. Urban Philosophy in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project Frank Cunningham6. Henri Lefebvre and the Right to the City Loren King7. Foucault and Urban Philosophy Kevin Scott Jobe8. Iris Young's City of Difference Elizabeth PurcellPart 2: Philosophical Engagement with Urban IssuesSection 1: Urban Aesthetics9. Urban Planning and Design as an Aesthetic Dilemma: Void vs. Volume in City-form Abraham Akkerman10. Architecture and Philosophy of the City Saul Fisher11. A Philosophy of Urban Parks Amanda Meyer and Charles Taliaferro12. Political Aesthetics of Public Art in Urban Spaces Fred Evans13. Walking the City: Flânerie and Flâneurs Kathryn Kramer and John Rennie Short14. How Might Creative Placemaking Lead to More Just Cities? Sharon M. MeagherSection 2: Urban Politics15. Beyond Deliberation and Civic Engagement: Participatory Budgeting and a New Philosophy of Public Power Alexander Kolokotronis and Michael Menser16. Constructing Communities in Urban Spaces Brian Elliot17. Houselessness Kevin Scott Jobe18. On Residential Segregation, Desegregation, Integration in Political Philosophy Ronald Sundstrom&nb