Karpovets M. City as a World of Human Existence: the Philosophical and Anthropological Analysis

The dissertation paper presents a philosophical and anthropological analysis of the city as a world of human existence. It reveals cultural and ontological features of space and time in which human practices are actualized. The research shows in detail the dialectics of a human body and the city, where the principle of complement plays a sociocultural role. At the same time, the phenomenon of human corporeality in the urban environment is analyzed. Namely, such modes as the body of a citizen, a flaneur, a tourist and a crowd were determined. Particular attention is paid to the phenomenon of everyday life in the city, which not only acts as an invisible space of human existence, but also takes place as an specail environment of generating the urban behavior and, as a result, the model of a city dweller. The cultural peculiarities of the world-view were considered in the context of human openness to the world, urban anxiety and experience of the city. The study argues that the phenomenon of urban identity is a project of human existence, which is based on the image of the urban dweller while the organization of the city world.