Urban ethics : conflicts over the good and proper Life in Cities
- London : Routledge, 2022
Moritz Ege is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen with a research focus on popular culture studies, urban ethnography, conjunctural analysis, and historical anthropology.
This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city ? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a 'good' life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and 'good' prevail? What is the connection between the 'good' and the 'just' in urban life ?