Philosophy and Geography II · The Production of Public Space by Light, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Sponsored by the Society for Philosophy and Geography Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Table of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Geography, Philosophy, and Public Space Henri Lefebvre on Abstract Space

Introduction Four Paradigms and Three Dialectics The Dialectic of Spatial Terms The Dialectic of Spatial History Abstract Space Two Versions of Hegelianism and the Spatial Dialectic Abstract Space and the Hegelian Abstract Where’s the Dialectic? The Critique of Abstract Space Notes

Antinomies of Space and Nature in Henri Lefebvre’s - The Production of Space

The Critique of Idealism and the Production of Space But Why Space? Ontology and History The Production of Nature? Space, Power, and Nature: A Missing Geography Notes

I II III IV Notes

Formal Politics, Meta-Space, and the Construction of Civil Life

The Paradigm: Classical Athens Meta-Space and Civil Life Sexuality as a Political Metaphor The Family Romance of the Division of Space Modern Struggles in Meta-Space Notes

The Stranger on the Green

The Democratic Stranger in the Eighteenth Century Proxemic and Dystemic Spaces Defining the Otherness of Strangers Finding Dystemic Spaces in America The Stranger as Mugger The Overlay of Private and Public Images Today The Encroaching Culture of Scene and Spectacle Generalizing the Critique of Visualist Culture Democratic Free Spaces Conclusions Notes

Public and Private, Power and Space

Public Space as a Site of Contact Public Space as the Site of Representation Critiques of “Public Space” The Trap Public and Private as Coexisting Power Relationships within Space Toward a New Conceptualization? Toward a Methodology Notes

The “Disappearance of Public Space”: An Ecological Marxist and Lefebvrian Approach

The Definitions A Method for Sublating the Definitions Lefebvre Marx Conclusions Notes

Contested Space: The Rural Idyll and Competing Notions of the Good Society in the U.K.

Contested Space: Reordering Rural Britain Diversity and Contested Space: The Need to Understand the Normative Dimension Individualism and Communitarianism: Social Aims and Rural Communities The Rural Idyll Individuals and Communities in Fragmented Localities Conclusions Notes

The Rights of Rights of Way

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The Mediation of the Public Sphere: Ideological Origins, Practical Possibilities

America in the Forties: The Public Sphere and Its Transformation The Public Sphere: Questions, Tensions and Contradictions Notes

Representation, Identity, and the Communicative Shaping of Place

Meanings, Values, and Identities A Communicative Way of Making Decisions Communication and Actor Networks Multidimensional Concepts of Actors, Space, and Place Responses to Proposals for Urban Change Linking Back to Theory Conclusions Notes

Maps and Entitlement to Territory

I. II. III. Notes

Index About the Editors and Contributors Style and Submission Guide - Philosophy and Geography