Gary Bridge

Reason in the City of Difference

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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. This is a transactional rationality based on communication, rather than cognition, involving bodies as much as minds, and non-discursive, as well as discursive competences… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-134-44467-0
EAN: 9781134444670
Produktnummer: 14829283
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 340 KB

Über den Autor

Gary Bridge is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Urban Studies, School for Policy Studies University of Bristol. Recent publications include A Companion to the City (Blackwell, 2000) and The Blackwell City Reader (2002), both co-edited with Sophie Watson.