Category: Issue 2-2024
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Editorial Issue 2
Our second edition Polis and Democracy – the idea of the city for free citizens is about the very idea of democracy and the kind of citizenship aligned to it. Being aware that this is a rather encompassing theme in this issue, we want to throw just some initial highlights on it.
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Utopia as “Community”
This essay focuses instead on theoretical debates within the sociological tradition, with a view to ascertaining what a viable “realistic” account of “everyday” utopia might consist of, but here chiefly in the urban context which this tradition chiefly addresses. Two major themes are examined here: the role of the city in these debates; and the…
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Is Democracy a Reality in Today’s Mass Societal Order?
Will the technical, socio-economic and political landscape bring a complete disruption of life as we know it today, or will it help mankind adapt to a better way of living, and a democratic lifestyle based on the Greek words ‘Demos‘ meaning people and ‘Kratos‘ meaning power, governing which depends on the will of the people?
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The Concept of Eidos in Urban Spaces – Remarks on the Title of this Journal
Taken from its Greek origin, an eidos is an image. It is a very old word, deeply embedded in our culture. From its Indo-European root, it means “seeing”, “to see”, is related to “knowing” and stands for a consistent form, appearance, gestalt, and the very nature of what is seen as a vivid fact. Eidos…
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The Lessons of Modern Art
Walter Benjamin told us about what art had lost in the course of its reproducibility. In this article I want to go into more detail about the characteristics that art had to make use of in order to preserve its balance and eventually become what we know it as today.