It is not a \;gross exaggeration to \;state that philosophy is an inherently urban phenomenon to \;a \;large extent. Born and largely practiced in \;the Greek \;polis\, it was developed throughout the ages in \;various places that more often than not were situated within city walls. Even if\, udoubtedly\, philosophy has never been limited solely to \;urban spaces\, it has become more and more embedded in \;cities over the centuries. Consequently\, from the nineteenth century on \;it has been part and parcel of the intellectual life whose main centers have been towns since it has been almost exclusively researched on \;and taught within academic institutions.
\nHowever\, these circumstances have passed unnoticed by \;philosophers for a \;long time as \;if the cityscape in \;which they lived and worked were only an everyday backdrop of their activity\, a \;background whose down-to-earth\, practical dimension made it separated from the kingdom of theory and\, hence\, philosophically uninteresting.
\nThis approach has recently changed and the city has been\, so to \;say\, discovered as \;an object of philosophical considerations. The conjunction &ldquo\;philosophy and the city&rdquo\; or \;&ndash\; which seems to \;be \;even more inspiring &ndash\; the concept of &ldquo\;the philosophy of the city&rdquo\; \; have emerged\, gaining popularity quite rapidly as \;it is proved by\, for example\, a \;number of recently published books as \;well as \;of special issues of philosophical journals.
\n&ldquo\;Metrosophy&rdquo\; &ndash\; to \;use the felicitous term suggested by \;D. Kischik in \;his article published in \;&ldquo\;New York Times&rdquo\; (July 6\, 2015) &ndash\; is a \;multifaceted project. On \;the one hand\, it is oriented toward identifying &ldquo\;philosophy and the city&rdquo\; motives in \;&ldquo\;classic to \;contemporary&rdquo\; writings\; on \;the other hand\, it aims at \;offering philosophical analyses of an immense variety of aspects of cities\, while the latter are approached as \;spaces shaped by \;material and social factors as \;much as \;objects of individual and collective experiences.
\nAn adage verging on \;triviality is that the future will be \;that of metropolises. In \;fact\, according to \;different estimates eagerly mentioned in \;the introductory chapters of all the books on \;the present and the future of cities\, the number of people living in \;cities (or \;rather mega-cities) will outgrow that of people living in \;non-urbanized areas in \;a \;very short time. This implies that cities are about to \;become everyday enviroments for the majority of several billions of people around the world.
\nIt is true that everyday life has been long analyzed in \;the humanities and social sciences\, and so has been the urban space. Yet\, despite that these two strands of research have repeatedly overlapped\, focusing on \;everyday life in \;the city seems to \;require much more than their collaboration.
\nPhilosophy together with its potential to \;ask fundamental questions concerning aesthetics\, environment\, ethics\, politics\, society\, technology\, law etc. offers a \;good ground to \;consider the particular nexus between everyday life and the city\, or \;to \;put it differently &ndash\; the urban everyday which\, as \;it has just been said\, is going to \;be \;one of the major factors shaping the future world.
\nIt may be \;added that within the array of possible philosophical approaches to \;the urban everyday a \;priveleged place is occupied by \;aesthetics. This comes as \;no \;surprise since architecture is one of the traditional aesthetic topics\, not to \;mention the fact that towns\, together with their buildings\, streets\, squares and parks perforce offer daily aesthetic experiences. Yet\, it is noteworthy that the interest in \;aesthetics within the &ldquo\;philosophy of the city&rdquo\; framework is fuelled by\, among other things\, a \;deep and important change within aesthetics over the last decades. Thanks to \;a \;number of philosophers interested in \;moving beyond the traditional boundaries of the field aesthetics has turned to \;objects and categories hitherto excluded as \;having little or \;nothing in \;common with the aesthetic. It suffices to \;mention two examples particularily to \;the point in \;the present context: the environment\, be \;it natural or \;humanized and the everyday (banal\, familiar\, routine). At \;the same time and regardless of the abovementioned changes of the concept of the aesthetic has broadened its limits in \;such a \;way as \;to \;be \;seen as \;an important element or \;aspect of the political\, the social\, the ethical.
\nIt seems uncontroversial that everyday life &ndash\; as \;we \;all know it and as \;it is getting more and more urbanized &ndash\;is a \;rich source of aesthetic experiences\, positive or \;negative\, which are inherent to \;our daily activities taking place in \;private or \;public spaces and inevitably having economic\, political\, social as \;well as \;ethical meanings\, Hence\, the aesthetic seems to \;be \;a \;promising point of departure or \;key to \;understand the everyday to-come.
\nWe \;invite submissions offering philosophical analyses of the everyday in \;urban contexts and are particularily interested in \;papers exploring the multifaceted character of the aesthetic in \;the context of contemporary urban practices and processes such as: gentrification\, quotidian architecture\, social activism\, street art\, migration\, utopian and anti-utopian thinking\, climate change\, non-human presence. Other topics are also welcome.
\nAs \;an academic journal we \;expect well-researched\, in-depth analyses fulfilling the standards provided for academic contributions. In \;accordance with the profile of our journal we \;are open not only to \;purely philosophical essays but also to \;contributions from other cultural disciplines. Papers can be \;submitted by \;March 31st\, 2023\, \;to: \;eidos.ed@uw.edu.pl
\nThey have to \;be \;previously unpublished and they cannot be \;under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be \;prepared for a \;double-blind review process. Please\, make sure that your paper complies with our \;submission standards which are posted here: \;https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/submissions/
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