A Humanistic City in the Post-Modern or Post-Structural Thinking

Barandak, Farhad; Babaei-Aghdam, Fereydoun; Mahmoudzadeh, Hasan

doi:10.22034/aaud.2024.342041.2664

A Humanistic City in the Post-Modern or Post-Structural Thinking

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Farhad Barandak ¹

Fereydoun Babaei-Aghdam ²

Hasan Mahmoudzadeh ²

¹ Ph.D. in Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Planning and Environmental Sciences, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran (Corresponding Author).

² Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Planning and Environmental Sciences, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran.

10.22034/aaud.2024.342041.2664

Abstract

Postmodern philosophy is considered a legitimate reaction to the uniformity of the general modern-era perspective of the universe. Postmodern philosophy or post-structural thinking reveals that there are some other possible epistemological forms, also. What is already existing is not the only possible form. So, what is the humanistic city in this novel form? It is understood that clarifying the origins, meanings, and multi-faceted functions of the city are also critical topics within the philosophical tradition. Considering cognitive developments and the rise of the era of numerous philosophical thinking movements, it is essential to investigate the topic of a humanistic city that would likewise correspond to these movements and truly help to deal with cities. Here, we discuss the subject of humanism within the context of post-modern and city philosophies. The objective of the present study was to perceive the humanistic city in post-modern philosophical thinking. The present study fell under fundamental research and used the qualitative (descriptive-analytical) approach using post-modern philosophy to reinterpret and elicit the concepts related to the relevant subject (the humanistic city) in the city philosophy. Findings showed that what was thought to have formed separate worlds in the past as a subjective whole along with an objective would culminate in an “other” dogmatism when contradicted each other in the modern era with the rise of Hegel and his Dialectics; however, it would not culminate in dogmatism when contradicted each other in the postmodern era in the form of a fictitious (imaginary) and a perceptual (objective) world, as they would consequently lay the ground for the rise of the “other” or the Third World, i.e., the lived world.

Keywords

Humanism

City

Postmodernism

Poststructuralism

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