Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces - Threshold Experiences - Grand Format

Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces : Threshold Experiences uses the term "threshold" as a means to understand the relationship between self and other, as well as relationships between different cultures. The concept of "threshold" defines the relationship between inside and outside not in oppositional terms, but as complementaries. This book discusses the cultural and social "border areas" of modernity, which are to be understood not as "zones" in a territorial sense, but as "spaces in between" in which different languages and cultures operate.
The chapters in Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces seek to identify urban topographies and political spaces where we are able to locate paradigmatic experiences of thresholds. Because these spaces are characterized by contradictions, conflicts, and aporias, those hermeneutic categories that imply a sharp opposition between inside and outside need to be rethought. This means that the theoretical definition of threshold put forward in these chapters - whether applied to history, philosophy, law, art, or cultural studies - embodies new juridical and political stances.