{"product_id":"city-in-the-distance","title":"City In The Distance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring the ever-changing philosophy of city life with Jean-Luc Nancy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe City in the Distance\u003c\/i\u003e, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar from an abstract account, Nancy attends in the most concrete way possible to the workings of a city not typically taken as paradigmatic, Los Angeles. As Jean-Christophe Bailly suggests in his foreword, Nancy joins Walter Benjamin in thinking the city not from an external vantage point, but on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57199849013630,"sku":"NW9781531508975","price":18.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781531508975.jpg?v=1778533304","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/city-in-the-distance","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}