Roundtable on "The Political Philosophy of the European City" by Ferenc Hörcher

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

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.

Sub Unit

• Democratic Theory

Chair

• James Bernard Murphy, Dartmouth College

Participants

• Ferenc Horcher, University of Public Service

• David David Clinton, Baylor University

• Geoffrey M Vaughan, Assumption University

• Anthony Petros Spanakos, Montclair State University

• Ishaan Jajodia, Yale University