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One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the
ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the
Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a
general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy,
and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges
these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now
called into question many of the cliches that still dominate
scholarly understandings of the Enlightenment's literary,
philosophical, and political culture. Yet this work has so far had
little impact on the reception of the Enlightenment, its key
players, debates, and ideas in the disciplines that most rely on
its legacy, namely, philosophy and political science. Edited by
Geoff Boucher and Henry Martyn Lloyd, Rethinking the Enlightenment
makes the case for connecting new work in intellectual history with
fresh understandings of 'Continental' philosophy and political
theory. In doing so, in this collection moves towards a critical
self-understanding of the present.
This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change
cities, but it reverses the 'normal' causal process. That is, many
chapters analyze how consumption and entertainment drive urban
development, not vice versa. People both live and work in cities
and where they choose to live shifts where and how they work.
Amenities enter as enticements to bring new residents or tourists
to a city and so amenities have thus become new public concerns for
many cities in the U.S. and much of Northern Europe. Old ways of
thinking, old paradigms - such as 'location, location, location'
and 'land, labor, capital, and management generate economic
development' - are too simple. So is 'human capital drives
development'. To these earlier questions we add, 'How do amenities
and related consumption attract talented people, who in turn drive
the classic processes which make cities grow?' This new question is
critical for policy makers, urban public officials, business, and
non-profit leaders who are using culture, entertainment, and urban
amenities to enhance their locations - for present and future
residents, tourists, conventioneers, and shoppers. The City as an
Entertainment Machine details the impacts of opera, used
bookstores, brew pubs, bicycle events, Starbucks' coffee shops, gay
residents, and other factors on changes in jobs, population,
inventions, and more. It is the first study to assemble and analyze
such amenities for national samples of cities (and counties). It
interprets these processes by showing how they add new insights
from economics, sociology, political science, public policy, and
geography. Considerable evidence is presented about how
consumption, amenities, and culture drive urban policy by
encouraging people to move to or from different cities and regions.
One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the
ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the
Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a
general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy,
and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges
these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now
called into question many of the cliches that still dominate
scholarly understandings of the Enlightenment's literary,
philosophical, and political culture. Yet this work has so far had
little impact on the reception of the Enlightenment, its key
players, debates, and ideas in the disciplines that most rely on
its legacy, namely, philosophy and political science. Edited by
Geoff Boucher and Henry Martyn Lloyd, Rethinking the Enlightenment
makes the case for connecting new work in intellectual history with
fresh understandings of 'Continental' philosophy and political
theory. In doing so, in this collection moves towards a critical
self-understanding of the present.
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