Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis? "
English | ISBN: 1793610827 | 2021 | 298 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1793610827 | 2021 | 298 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke, underestimated the political significance and value of the community of urban citizens, called ‘civitas’, united by local customs, or even a formal or informal urban constitution at a certain location, which had a recognizable countenance, with natural and man-made, architectural marks, called ‘
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