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The Political Philosophy of the European City - From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis? (Paperback)
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The Political Philosophy of the European City - From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis? (Paperback)
Series: Political Theory for Today
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The Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and
wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the
European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western
political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke,
underestimated the political significance and value of the
community of urban citizens, called 'civitas', united by local
customs, or even a formal or informal urban constitution at a
certain location, which had a recognizable countenance, with
natural and man-made, architectural marks, called 'urbs'. Recalling
the golden age of the European city in ancient Greece and Rome, and
offering a detailed description of its turbulent life in the
Renaissance Italian city-states, it makes a case for the city not
only as a hotbed of modern democracy, but also as a remedy for some
of the distortions of political life in the alienated contemporary,
centralized, Weberian bureaucratic state. Overcoming the
north-south divide, or the core and periphery partition, the book's
material is particularly rich in Central European case studies. All
in all, it is an enjoyable read which offers sound arguments to
revisit the offer of the small and middle-sized European town, in
search of a more sustainable future for Europe.
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