In: Asian Cities 9
What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to better engage in city life in the twenty-first century? Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self is a collection of papers that examine these questions. The contributors come from a variety of different disciplines, including architecture, urbanism, philosophy, and history, and their essays make comparative examinations of the practices of citizenship from the ancient world to the present day in both the East and the West. The papers? comparative approaches, between East and West, and ancient and modern, leads to a greater understanding of the challenges facing citizens in the urbanized twenty-first century, and by looking at past examples, suggests ways of addressing them. While the book's point of departure is philosophical, its key aim is to examine how philosophy can be applied to everyday life for the betterment of citizens in cities not just in Asia and the West but everywhere.
In: Asian cities 9
In: Asian Cities
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Bracken, Gregory -- 1. Citizenship and the Good Life / Bracken, Gregory -- 2. Spaces of the Prudent Self / Shiqiao, Li -- 3. The Biopolitics of Sexuality and the Hypothesis of an Erotic Art / Leitão Martins, Luiz Paulo -- 4. Elective Spaces / August, Karan -- 5. Interpreting Dao (道) between 'Way-making' and 'Be-wëgen' / Lacertosa, Massimiliano -- 6. Constructing Each Other / Borgmann, Katharina M. / Sneep, Deirdre -- 7. A Tale of Two Courts / Lewis, Ian R. -- 8. Urban Acupuncture / de Pee, Christian -- 9. The Value and Meaning of Temporality and its Relationship to Identity in Kunming City, China / Gao, Yun / Temple, Nicholas -- 10. Junzi (君子), the Confucian Concept of the 'Gentleman' , and its Influence on South Korean Land-Use Planning / Kresse, Klaas -- 11. Home Within Movement / van Dam, Renske Maria -- 12. The Concept of 'Home' / Rusdy, Sri Teddy / Cahyadhuha, Brandon / Hastangka -- Afterword / Bracken, Gregory -- Index
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