"The Political Philosophy of the European City offers a wide-ranging panorama of urban political culture in Europe. Its historical scope ranges from the ancient polis through Italian city-states to the ideal of "small is beautiful" in the 20th century. As a political theory, it offers an analysis of conservative, urban republicanism"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Intellectual History of the City
  • “Urbs” and “Civitas”
  • The Citizen of Geneva and His Two Concepts of Citizens’ Liberty
  • Notes
• Chapter 1: From the “Reason of the City” to the “Practical Wisdom of the City”
  • The City as Experience I: The Flaneur in Nineteenth-Century Paris and the Voyeur in New York
  • The City as Experience II: Childhood Memories from Communist Budapest
  • The City as Subject Matter of History Writing: Sieges of Buda
  • The City in Fiction: Géza Ottlik and Sándor Márai
  • The City in Travelogs: Márton Szepsi Csombor
  • The Visual Representation of the Civitas: Rembrandt
  • The Bourgeois Way of Life as Culture: Johan Huizinga
  • The Tradition of the German Bürger: Thomas Mann and Max Weber
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: The City of the Italian Renaissance and the German City
  • The Development from the Italian Commune to the City-State
  • Florence and Venice: Two Models of Italian Urban Republicanism
  • The End of the City-State
  • The Afterlife of the Italian City-State
  • Urban Self-government in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Urban Magistracy and Royal Court in Central Europe
  • City and Central Power in the Early Modern Period: An Overview
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: The City of Ancient Greece and Christian Europe
  • The Institutions of Ancient Athens
  • Aristotle on Athens
  • Benjamin Constant on Athens
  • The Institutional Framework of the Roman Republic
  • Cicero’s Account of the Mixed Constitution
  • Aristotle, Cicero, and Dante: Italian Urban Humanism
  • The Schoolmen and the Chancellor: The Reception of Aristotle
  • The Monk and the Cleric: The Ciceronian Heritage
  • From the Ancient Polis to the Italian City-state and Beyond
  • Notes
• Chapter 4: From the Megalopolis to the City of Human Scale
  • The Dark Side of the Industrialized City
  • The Glory and the Decline of the Bourgeoisie
  • The Totalitarian State and the Global Polis
  • Small Is Beautiful: Kohr and Schumacher
  • The Prince, the Philosopher, and the Architect
  • Notes
• Conclusion
  • Rodin’s Calais
  • Antal Szerb’s Siena
  • The Political Philosophy of Siena
  • Summary
  • Notes
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• About the Author