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Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session
Before Europe was a set of rival nation states or a common market, it was a network of largely self-governing cities. In this timely and wide-ranging study at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Ferenc Hörcher attempts to extricate the political habits and institutions of European urban self-government. What we call "republican" political culture is mainly the culture of self-government in these European cities, as Horcher argues from both literary and philosophical sources. Hörcher is worried about the fate of this local, urban political wisdom under the pressure of modern nation states and post-modern European institutions.