Reason in the city of difference pragmatism, communicative action, and contemporary urbanism
"In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmati...
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Sprache: | eng |
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London u.a.
Routledge
2005
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Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
Schriftenreihe: | Questioning cities
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Zusammenfassung: | "In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmatism (and its contemporary developments in feminism and the philosophy of communication) to explore the possibilities of a strengthening and deepening of reason in the contemporary city."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | X, 178 S. |
ISBN: | 0415287669 0-415-28766-9 9780415287661 978-0-415-28766-1 0415287677 0-415-28767-7 |