This book analyzes the intrinsic value of urban environments in a world where the boundary between the city and the wild is increasingly dissolving. It provides the analytical tools for regarding the city as simultaneously a wild and a civil space.
Due to rapid urbanization, the city is becoming the dominant habitat for people while also engulfing non-human habitats. Animals and plants are finding new ways to adapt to the built environment of urban spaces. But what does it mean to regard the city as simultaneously a wild and civil space? This book focuses on what it means to define the ideal city as the opposite of the wild, as well as how to include the wild in the sphere of the political. The author builds on the Aristotelian notion of the city as a political form of life in which the pleasant and the just are negotiated. Ideal wild cities incorporate the disruptive agency of non-humans and afford explicit and implicit deliberations on common values and ideals.
Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics in Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in environmental philosophy and environmental humanities, political philosophy, environmental ethics and aesthetics, philosophy of the city, urban ecology, and animal ethics.
| ISBN: | 9781032424903 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2026 |
| Author: | Tea Lobo |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 316 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy Social and political philosophy Urban communities Urban and municipal planning and policy Politics and government Interdisciplinary studies |
This book analyzes the intrinsic value of urban environments in a world where the boundary between the city and the wild is increasingly dissolving. It provides the analytical tools for regarding the city as simultaneously a wild and a civil space.
Due to rapid urbanization, the city is becoming the dominant habitat for people while also engulfing non-human habitats. Animals and plants are finding new ways to adapt to the built environment of urban spaces. But what does it mean to regard the city as simultaneously a wild and civil space? This book focuses on what it means to define the ideal city as the opposite of the wild, as well as how to include the wild in the sphere of the political. The author builds on the Aristotelian notion of the city as a political form of life in which the pleasant and the just are negotiated. Ideal wild cities incorporate the disruptive agency of non-humans and afford explicit and implicit deliberations on common values and ideals.
Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics in Imaginaries of Future Urban Natures will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in environmental philosophy and environmental humanities, political philosophy, environmental ethics and aesthetics, philosophy of the city, urban ecology, and animal ethics.
Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics features in the following genres: Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Politics and government, Interdisciplinary studies
Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics is available in Hardback
Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics was written by Tea Lobo and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Wildness, Justice, and Aesthetics has 316 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series
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