The City as Illusion and Promise

• Main Author: Barbaza, Remmon E
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: city; Lefebvre; Heidegger; David Harvey; Lino Brocka; Edgardo Reyes; Other Philosophy; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/39; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=philo-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In The City as Illusion and Promise, the author examines the claim (by Henri Lefebvre, and later David Harvey) that the city no longer exists, at least as we know it. What we have instead is merely an illusion, something that Martin Heidegger also implies in some of his later writings, notably his s...