1. Introduction
2. Towards Living Your Best Life in the City
3. Building an Urban Existentialism
4. Conceptual Common Ground and Joint Action with Others
5. Against Living and Dying Alone
6. The Home as Urban Technology
7. Transportation Arrangements
8. Auxiliary Elements for City Living
9. Lessons for Citizens
Biography
Shane Epting is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. His previous books include Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City, Ethics in Agribusiness: Justice and Global Food in Focus, Saving Cities: A Taxonomy of Urban Technology, and The Morality of Urban Mobility.
“In Meaning in the Metropolis, Shane Epting helps us to see how the design and structure of our cities too often fail to provide the conditions needed for us to live free and meaningful lives. Rather, our cities impose on us conditions from which we must struggle to disentangle ourselves and which can tragically lead to urban isolation and the dread of living and dying alone. By studying how our planning and policies create these harmful conditions, Epting shows us how we might hope to mitigate them. Through innovations in transportation services, housing policy, and the use of new technologies, we can make our urban spaces more conducive to human connection and foster the freedom needed for city dwellers to flourish. This is an important book and our cities will be better for taking its lessons seriously.”
Joseph S. Biehl, St. John’s University, New York
