Making Sense of the City: Public Spaces in the Philippines. This item is unavailable.Making Sense of the City: Public Spaces in the Philippines

Making Sense of the City is a collection of essays from scholars in the humanities and the social sciences examining the city within the Philippine context. With Metro Manila bursting at the seams, as tensions continue to intensify and more intractable problems arise than those that are being solved, it becomes a matter of survival for all stakeholders to come together and shape the future of the city.

Remmon E. Barbaza is associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University. He holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, an MA in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University, and a PhD in Philosophy from the Hochschule für Philosophie in Munich, with a dissertation on Heidegger’s concept of dwelling, under the supervision of the late Prof. Dr. Gerd Haeffner, S.J. His research interests include Heidegger, language, translation, technology, environment, and the city.