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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PHILOSOPHY OF THE CITY

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The city as a specific form of territorial organization of society very rarely becomes the object of philosophical analysis. Meanwhile, the importance of cities is growing in practice, and this should be reflected in theory. The study of the processes of urbanization and the topic of the city as a whole is important from the point of view of the philosophy of history - in terms of identifying the relationship between the processes of urbanization and social development, from the point of view of philosophy of culture and analysis of its modernization.

What Is City?

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The object of this paperis the city as a specific form of territorial organization of society. The task is to identify the main characteristics that determine the modern city as a specific phenomenon. The historical variability of ideas about the city associated with the historical development of the phenomenon of the city and society as a whole is demonstrated. The relativity of the distinction between the city and the non-city in modern society and the problematic definition of clear boundaries of the city are shown.

The Controversy with Immanuel Wallerstein: the Industrial Revolution and Globalization as the Great Turning Points of Modern Times

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Wallerstein states that the only social revolution, or the «great turning point» of Modern Times, is the formation of the European capitalist world–economy during the «long» XVI century. Contrary to this, the author argues that two more great fractures can be distinguished in the history of Modern Times. The first of them was the industrial revolution of the XIX century, when three processes coincided, provoked by the invention of the steam engine – the mechanization of factory production, the energy revolution and the change of logistics.

The Philosophical Roots of the Ideology of the New Equality

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The United States is traditionally perceived as a country dominated by liberal individualism. However, recently there has been a rise in the ideology of new equality. It presupposes the interpretation of the ideal of equality as equality of results, and in the collectivist dimension, i.e. as equality between some significant social groups, which is achieved through positive discrimination. This ideology received its philosophical justification in the left-liberal versions of the theory of justice - liberal egalitarianism and communitarianism.

The Debate on the New Historical Stage: Marxism and the Concept of Post-Industrial Society

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Marxism and the theory of post-industrial society are two competing but largely similar approaches to the interpretation of social development. The emergence of the hypothesis of the transition to a new, post-industrial stage of history was a challenge for Marxist theorists. They responded with a series of arguments, more or less valid, attempting to refute the main tenets of the competing theory. By now, the dispute is not over. However, it became clear that the key points of both approaches needed further justification.