Аннотации:
The purpose of this report is to trace the evolution of the understanding of public
space in modern philosophy. It examines the various classifications of public spaces found in
modern social sciences, humanities, and interdisciplinary studies, which are based on the
philosophical works of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arend, Jurgen Habermas, and the ideas set forth
by sociologists Richard Sennett and Irving Hoffmann, among others. These authors have had a
significant impact on modern interdisciplinary studies of urban space and the way it is understood
and transformed.By examining different approaches to classifying public space, we can see how its authors
highlighted specific aspects of publicity that, in their opinion, were emphasized during different
periods of human history. In the early stages of human civilization, private and public spaces were
clearly separated, but with the growth of capitalism, globalization, and urbanization, the line
between private and public spaces has become blurred.
Within the process of defining the public space concept in modern philosophy and
highlighting nuances of its naturalness and authenticity, some authors consider the Greek agora
and Roman forum as the ideal public sphere (H. Arend), while others associate the birth of modern
publicity with the New Age (J. Habermas), when the bourgeois society and modern concepts of
equality had been developing.
The «spatial turn» in modern social sciences and humanities has led to a new
understanding of public space, which is being understood as a construct of human relationships,
reflecting the social reality and forms of participation in a particular period of human and society
development, rather than as a pre-existing natural phenomenon.
