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Leggere la città. Quattro saggi di Paul Ricoeur

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] Read the city. Four essays by Paul Ricoeur
  • Franco Riva (Editor)

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Abstract

A trustworthy architecture and a decent city are the only possible alternative to urban and human decline: this is in Paul Ricoeur’s reflections about the city, put together and translated for the first time. The mistrust and the fear growing in the human relations find a correspondence in the ugliness of urban buildings, just a congestion of spaces. The city forgets welcoming and building loses the memory of its gesture. Living, building, inhabiting. Prefiguring, configuring, figuring again. Reading the city, its shadows and its lights: Ricoeur interweaves an original and fruitful parallelism between tale and architecture, between memory and project, between ethics and construction. Man actually does not inhabit because builds up but builds up because inhabits (Heidegger). In Franco Riva’s essay (The anguish of inhabit, pp. 7-66 bibl.) the question of postmodern city is faced up as a central aspect of modernity crisis. The place of human is being discussed. Name and work index.
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] Read the city. Four essays by Paul Ricoeur
Original languageItalian
PublisherCASTELVECCHI
Number of pages146
ISBN (Print)978-88-7615-933-6
Publication statusPublished - 2013

Publication series

NameLe Navi

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • body
  • city
  • ethics
  • inhabit postmodern

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