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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).
On the Philosophy of the City – Keith Jacobs and Jeff Malpas
Further Reading
Part 1: City Concepts: Places, Processes, Structures
1. Capitalism, Form and the Philosophy of the Urban – David Cunningham
2. Discourses of the City – Kathleen Flanagan
3. The City as Wild – Wendy Steele
4. Urban Time and the City as Event – Tony Fry
5. The Immanent City – Simon Sadler
Part 2: City Landscapes: Experience, History, Identity
6. Solar Le Corbusier – Alan Stoekl
7. Escaping Modernity: Renaissance Florence and the Rejection of the City – Katie Campbell
8. Justice as the Urban Everyday – Wendy Pullan
9. Gardens, Cities, and Timescapes in South Asia – Smriti Srinivas
10. A Vertical Melbourne – Meg Nethercote
11. The City’s Other Face: Modern Ruins and Urban Endings – Emma Fraser
Part 3: City Futures: Power, Risk, and Value
12. Beyond Differences of Race, Class: Making Urban Subjects – Saskia Sassen
13. Cities Remade: On Deciding the Fate of Building in the City – Janet Donohoe
14. The City as a Construct of Risk and Security – Yosef Jabereen and Efrat Eizenberg
15. Philosophies of Commensuration, Value, Worth in the Future City: Rethinking the Interdisciplinary – Michael Keith
16. Multiplying Resistance: The Power of the Urban in the Age of National Revanchism – Asma Mehan and Ugo Rossi
17. Urban Futures and the Dark Enlightenment – Roger Burrows
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
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