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  • Prendre part

    considérations sur la démocratie et ses fins

    La démocratie va mal. Menacée par la manipulation de l'opinion publique et la montée d'un certain populisme aux relents autoritaires, entre autre choses, elle parait d'autant plus fragile que l'on participe souvent soi-même à son érosion, sans s'en rendre compte. Il ne sera toutefois pas aisé de la réparer, une fois qu'elle aura été brisée pour de bon. La démocratie vise pourtant un idéal qui ... Leer más

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  • Donner sens à l’éthique publique

    Mélanges en l’honneur de Luc Bégin

    Donner sens à l’éthique publique est une invitation à prendre la pleine mesure de ce qu’exige la réflexion éthique dans l’espace public et à l’intérieur des organisations. La promotion de cet effort d’orientation, civique et intellectuelle, ne va pas de soi : à l’ère de la désinformation massive et devant l’abandon des conditions d’une saine délibération démocratique pour surmonter les désaccords, ... Leer más

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  • La juste part

    Repenser les inégalités, la richesse et la fabrication des grille-pains

    Les inégalités croissantes sont-elles le prix à payer pour les grands bénéfices de l’économie de marché? Dans quelle mesure peut-on intervenir dans la distribution de la richesse, et peut-on le faire sans brimer les libertés individuelles? Les riches et les pauvres méritent- ils leur sort? C’est à ces questions pressantes que répond La juste part. À la fois accessible, érudit et brulant d ... Leer más

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  • Rites of Way

    The Politics and Poetics of Public Space

    Edición de Mark Kingwell, Patrick Turmel ...
    Series series Canadian Commentaries
    There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny.The essays in Rites of Way: The ... Leer más

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    Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R.

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  • The Truly Disadvantaged

    The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

    An assessment of the relationship between race and poverty in the United States, and potential solutions for the issue.Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner-city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers ... Leer más

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  • Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

    How to See Things

    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote ... Leer más

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  • Street Art, Public City

    Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination

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  • Mediators

    Aesthetics, Politics, and the City

    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ... Leer más

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  • Why Only Art Can Save Us

    Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency

    The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political realism stops us from recognizing as emergencies, from widespread surveillance to climate change to ... Leer más

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  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    de Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Leer más

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  • Constructing Community

    Configurations of the Social in Contemporary Philosophy and Urbanism

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    Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within European philosophy over the last three decades, Brian Elliott investigates parallel approaches to community within urban theory and practice over ... Leer más

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