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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt offers the prospect of an academic conversation across boundaries that have proven remarkably impervious to dialogue. The reader will encounter thought-provoking comments in a number of the essays. * Professional Geographer *
They show that both philosophers and geographers can benefit from listening to the epistemological, political, scientific, and ethical issues surrounding space and place that trouble each other. This lesson alone makes the journal an important read. * Environmental Ethics *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 List of Illustrations Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction: Geography, Philosophy, and Public Philosophy, and Public Space Part 4 Symposium on Henri LeFebvre's the Production of Space Chapter 5 Henri Lefebvre on Abstract Space Chapter 6 Antinomies of Space and Nature in Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space Chapter 7 The Production of Space or The Heterogeneity of Place: A Commentary on Edward Dimendberg and Neil Smith Part 8 Beyond The Public/Private Dichotomy Chapter 9 Formal Politics, Meta-Space, and the Construction of Civil Life Chapter 10 The Stranger on the Green Chapter 11 Public and Private, Power and Space Chapter 12 The "Disappearance of Public Space": An Ecological Marxist and Lefebvrian Approach Part 13 Regional Territories Chapter 14 Contested Space: The Rural Idyll and Competing Notions of the Good Society in the U.K. Chapter 15 The Rights of Rights of Way Chapter 16 The Mediation of the Public Sphere: Ideological Origins, Practical Possibilities Chapter 17 Representation, Identity, and the Communicative Shaping of Place Chapter 18 Maps and Entitlement to Territory Chapter 19 Index
