Philosophical Remarks on City And Right to the City

Editor	Özgüç Güven, Murat Ertan Kardeş
A city forms the core of all political and philosophical projects. On one hand, a city is a place of human aspirations and pursuits; on the other, it represents a space of tension and anxiety. This dual and often paradoxical character of the city compels philosophers to constantly cogitate its current status. Philosophy is often defined as the child of the city (polis); it is thus the product of urban life. As a medium of social space and political unity, the city has become a stipulation for philosophical activity. In this sense, philosophy is not deprived of its conditions; alternatively, it is an activity that reveals itself within its prerequisite environment. The book reveals varied philosophical reflections on the city, focusing primarily on the urban crisis and debates on rights to the city. The book also attends to the city-philosophy connection in terms of language, borders, art, architecture, and meta-philosophy. The body of research on the city cannot be reduced to the sum of discourses of technical experts. Beyond this boundary, the city stands in its entirety at the heart of debates on equality, freedom, and liberation, surpassing all types of pragmatic discussion. Max Weber cites the proverb, “Stadtluft macht frei” (the urban air frees), serving as a reminder that a city is also a place of domination and freedom. In this respect, the city is the arena of all types of conflict.
Subjects	Philosophy

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A city forms the core of all political and philosophical projects. On one hand, a city is a place of human aspirations and pursuits; on the other, it represents a space of tension and anxiety. This dual and often paradoxical character of the city compels philosophers to constantly cogitate its current status. Philosophy is often defined as the child of the city (polis); it is thus the product of urban life. As a medium of social space and political unity, the city has become a stipulation for philosophical activity. In this sense, philosophy is not deprived of its conditions; alternatively, it is an activity that reveals itself within its prerequisite environment.
The book reveals varied philosophical reflections on the city, focusing primarily on the urban crisis and debates on rights to the city. The book also attends to the city-philosophy connection in terms of language, borders, art, architecture, and meta-philosophy. The body of research on the city cannot be reduced to the sum of discourses of technical experts. Beyond this boundary, the city stands in its entirety at the heart of debates on equality, freedom, and liberation, surpassing all types of pragmatic discussion. Max Weber cites the proverb, “Stadtluft macht frei” (the urban air frees), serving as a reminder that a city is also a place of domination and freedom. In this respect, the city is the arena of all types of conflict.

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Philosophy

Intermediate Spaces as the Connecting And Blending Power of the City: A Comparative Perspective on the Edges Of Istanbul and the Suburbs of Paris

Mustafa Poyraz

DOI :10.26650/BS/AA23.2021.001-2.11

P. 167-184

ISBN	978-605-07-0789-2
E-ISBN	978-605-07-0778-6
Publisher	Istanbul University Press
Publish Date	06.08.2021
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Philosophical Remarks on City And Right to the City

Philosophical Remarks on City And Right to the City

TABLE OF CONTENTS AND LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Rethinking the Right to The City Today

The Cities of Plato and Socrates

The Habitable Locus of Thought: Boundary/limit, Constructing, Settling and Dwelling

Rationalization and Governance of Circulations in the Urban Environment

The Urban and the Political Praxsis: The Perceived, the Conceived and the Lived

Miletus as a Political City and the Occurrence of Philosophy

Spinoza’s Languages, the Languages of The Jews and the “jewish Language”

Languages and the Structure of Architectural Structure

Painters and Cities in the Shadows of Historical Issues in the Middle East

A Critical Reading on Bakuninist Communal Society Ideal of Bookchin in Terms of the Identicalness of the Small City and the Free City

Intermediate Spaces as the Connecting And Blending Power of the City: A Comparative Perspective on the Edges Of Istanbul and the Suburbs of Paris

Urban Space and Public Space Relationship in Richard Sennett

The “Mad-woman” Image of the City in Tragedies: “Woman” as A Political Agent

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