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Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Readings from Philosophy: Classic to Contemporary
7. Pericles 14
8. Plato 20
9. Aristotle 33
10. Augustine 40
11. Niccolò Machiavelli 50
12. St. Thomas More 55
13. Thomas Hobbes 65
14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 72
15. Thomas Jefferson 81
16. Jane Addams 84
17. Georg Simmel 96
18. Max Weber 102
19. John Dewey 110
20. Walter Benjamin 115
21. Martin Heidegger 119
22. Lewis Mumford 125
23. Henri Lefebvre 136
24. William J. Gavin 140
25. Jürgen Habermas 143
26. Michel Foucault 146
27. Christian Norberg-Schulz 150
28. Iris Marion Young 163
29. bell hooks 175
30. Elizabeth A. Grosz 184
31. Cornel West 189
32. Joseph Grange 196
33. James Conlon 199
34. Susan Bickford 210
35. Eduardo Mendieta 219
36. Gail Weiss 225
37. Philosophy Matters, City Matters: Cases for Discussion
38. What Is a City? 213
39. Citizenship 251
40. Urban Identity and Diversity 259
41. The Built Environment (Planning and Architecture) 271
42. Social Justice and the Ethics of the City 289
43. Index 305
44. About the Author 309