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Author:   Keith Jacobs, Professor of Sociology, U ,  Jeff Malpas
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.454kg
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9781786604606

ISBN 10:   1786604604
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   15 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Part I: City Concepts / 1. [TBC], Andrew Benjamin / 2. Cities: Where the wild things are, Wendy Steele / 3. Capitalism, Form and the Philosophy of the Metropolis, David Cunningham / 4. The self-organized city, Simon Sadler / 5. Solar Le Corbusier, Allan Stoekl / Part II: City Histories / 6. Interrogating Myo: conceptions of and Practices in Cities in Burma/Myanmar, Jayde Roberts / 7. 'Escaping Mediocrity': The Rise of the Suburban Villa in Early Renaissance Florence, Katie Campbell / 8. Target, theatre or resource? Concepts of the city in organised violence, Martin Coward / 9. The City and Utopia: South Asian Imaginaries and Practices, Smriti Srinivas / 10. Tale of Two Cities, Pratyush Shankar / Part III: City Landscapes / 11. Modernist Architecture and Sense of Place, Ingrid Stefanovic / 11. The City Foreclosed: Walter Benjamin's Arcades and the Anti-image, Jessica Dubow / 12. The New Psychogeographers: Gender, Edgeless Edgelands, and the City, Lauren Elkin / Part IV: City Futures / 14. Smart City Prospects – Envisioning a Future of Control, Philipp Späth / 15. Edge City: Reflections on Anthropocenic Urbanism, Eduardo Mendieta / 16. Philosophies of commensuration, value and worth in the future city, Michael Keith / 17. [TBA], Rosi Braidotti / Conclusion / Further Reading / Index

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While philosophy might have begun in the city, this volume asks the more unusual question of what it means to think philosophically about the city – the concepts it enfolds, the modes of life and existence it allows, the histories and future possibilities it engages. Expansive and incisive, this excellent volume situates the city at the centre of our critical and creative reflections. -- Jessica Dubow, Reader in Cultural Geography, University of Sheffield Cities are the most complex of all human inventions. They contain, reveal, and amplify all the challenges and possibilities of existence. Cities have also been where most philosophical discourse has actually happened, yet philosophers have unfailingly chosen to ignore them. Philosophy and the City is the first substantial attempt to correct this remarkable omission and to explore the city as a philosophical subject. -- Edward Relph, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

While philosophy might have begun in the city, this volume asks the more unusual question of what it means to think philosophically about the city - the concepts it enfolds, the modes of life and existence it allows, the histories and future possibilities it engages. Expansive and incisive, this excellent volume situates the city at the centre of our critical and creative reflections. -- Jessica Dubow, Reader in Cultural Geography, University of Sheffield

Author Information

Keith Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania. His publications include: The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy (1999); Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia (2011); and House, Home and Society (2016), co-authored with Rowland Atkinson. Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Latrobe University. He was founder, and until 2005, Director, of the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. His many publications include Heidegger and the Thinking of Place (2012), Heidegger's Topology (2006) and Place and Experience (2007).

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