Sharon M. Meagher is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Scranton. She is the coeditor (with Patrice DiQuinzio) of Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy, also published by SUNY Press.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Readings from Philosophy: Classic to Contemporary

Classic and Medieval Readings (500 BCE-AD 1499)

      . Thucydides, Pericles' funeral oration
      . Plato, Crito and The Republic
      . Aristotle, Politics
      . Augustine, City of God

Modern Readings (1500-1899)

      . Niccoló Machiavelli, The Prince and Discourses
      . St. Thomas More, Utopia
      . Thomas Hobbes, De Cive
      . Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theater
      . Thomas Jefferson, "Manufactures"
      . Jane Addams, "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements"

Late Modern Readings (1900-1969)

      . Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
      . Max Weber, "Concepts and Categories of the City"
      . John Dewey, "Philosophy and Civilization"
      . Walter Benjamin, Arcades Project
      . Martin Heidegger, "Building Dwelling Thinking"
      . Lewis Mumford, "Retrospect and Prospect"

Contemporary Readings (1970-present)

      . Henri Lefebvre, "Philosophy of the City and Planning Ideology"
      . William J. Gavin, "The Urban and the Aesthetic"
      . Jürgen Habermas, "The Public Sphere"
      . Michel Foucault, "Panopticism"
      . Christian Norberg-Schulz, "The Loss and Recovery of Place"
      . Iris Marion Young, "City Life as a Normative Ideal"
      . bell hooks, "Homeplace: A Site of Resistance"
      . Elizabeth A. Grosz, "Body Politic and Political Bodies"
      . Cornel West, "Race Matters"
      . Joseph Grange, "The Philosopher as Master of Heartfelt Contrast"
      . James Conlon, "Cities and the Place of Philosophy"
      . Susan Bickford, "Constructing Inequality: City Spaces and the Architecture of Citizenship"
      . Eduardo Mendieta, "A Phenomenology of the Global City"
      . Gail Weiss, "Urban Flesh: The Fragility of Dwelling"

Part II: Philosophy Matters, City Matters: Cases for Discussion

Section A. What Is a City?

      . Philosophy Matters: Friedrich Engels, "The Failure of the City for 19th Century British Working Class"
      . City Matters: Robert Ginsberg, "Aesthetics in Hiroshima: The Architecture of Remembrance"

Section B. Citizenship

      . Philosophy Matters: Robert Gooding-Williams, "Citizenship and Racial Ideology"
      . City Matters: Daniel Kemmis, "Taxpayers vs. Citizens"

Section C. Urban Identity and Diversity

      . Philosophy Matters: Lee Francis, "We, the People: Young American Indians Reclaiming Their Identity"
      . City Matters: Geraldine Pratt, "Domestic Workers, Gentrification and Diversity in Vancouver"

Section D. The Built Environment (Planning and Architecture)

      . Philosophy Matters: Robert Mugerauer, "Design on Behalf of Place"
      . City Matters: HRH The Prince of Wales, "Tall Buildings"

Section E. Social Justice and the Ethics of the City

      . Philosophy Matters: Andrew Light, "Elegy for a Garden"
      . City Matters: Friedrich Hayek, "Housing and Town Planning"

Index
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