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Résumé

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 Politics and Poetics of Public Space open up multiple dimensions of the concept from architectural, political, philosophical, and technological points of view. There is some historical analysis here, but the contributors are more focused on the future of public space under conditions of growing urbanization and democratic confusion. The added interest offered by non-academic work—visual art, fiction, poetry, and drama—is in part an admission that this is a topic too important to be left only to theorists. It also makes an implicit argument for the crucial role that art, not just public art, plays in a thriving public realm.

Throughout this work contributors are guided by the conviction, not pious but steely, that healthy public space is one of the best, living parts of a just society. The paths of desire we follow in public trace and speak our convictions and needs, our interests and foibles. They are the vectors and walkways of the social, the public dimension of life lying at the heart of all politics.

Auteur

  • Mark Kingwell (Edité par)

    Professeur de philosophie à l'Université de Toronto, Mark Kingwell est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages. Sa biographie philosophique Glenn Gould a récemment été publiée en français aux éditions du Boréal.
  • Patrick Turmel (Edité par)

    Patrick Turmel est professeur de philosophie à l’Université Laval. Il a cosigné La juste part: repenser les inégalités, la richesse et la fabrication des grille-pains, le tout premier essai de la collection Documents, publié en 2012.

Caractéristiques

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Publication : 7 avril 2011

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub], Livre numérique eBook [PDF]

Contenu(s) : ePub, PDF

Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub), Marquage social (PDF)

Taille(s) : 3,67 Mo (ePub), 3,1 Mo (PDF)

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9781554587230

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF] : 9781554581672

EAN13 (papier) : 9781554581535

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