B Van Leeuwen
Biographic Data
| ID | 10670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Van Leeuwen |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Leeuwen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN LEEUWEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6316-9100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond displacement: Gentrification, misrecognition and resistance in Rotterdam's Tweebosbuurt
Contains fulltext : 321593.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement
Recently a number of theorists argue that physical displacement as a result of gentrification ought to be morally rejected on the basis of the principle of personal autonomy: displacement violates the option to exercise “place-based” or “located life-plans.” What is adversely violated is the neighborhood as a spatial background condition for the ability to realize embedded pursuits. I argue that this attempt to morally value social attachments to…
What is the point of urban justice? Access to human space
Is architecture relevant for political theory
Is architecture relevant for political theory? That is the key question that structures this excellent collection Political Theory and Architecture, although a number of essays fit a broader formulated theme better, namely, concerning the political relevance of the organization and design of our built environment more generally, including architecture but also spatial planning and urban design. The collection demonstrates that our build environme…
If we are flâneurs , can we be cosmopolitans
Walter Benjamin’s and Charles Baudelaire’s personage of the flâneur can be interpreted as a representation of the ambivalent attraction to the strange and unknown in the experience of anonymous city life, so characteristic for the modern age. To what extent can we interpret this role of the flâneur – given its essential qualities in these writings – as a representation of world citizenship? The thesis is that the flâneur is more a cosmopolitan in…
To the Edge of the Urban Landscape: Homelessness and the Politics of Care
Homelessness is an obvious moral challenge, given the fact that it is a problem that millions of people in the developed world have to deal with on a daily basis. In the relatively scarce literature on this subject, there appear to be—roughly—three main approaches, namely, what I will refer to as the “difference approach,” the “liberal approach” and the “care approach.” In the paper I will critically review these three moral perspectives on the i…
Absorbing the agony of agonism? The limits of cultural questioning and alternative variations of intercultural civility
Recently the political philosophy of agonism has been applied by urban theorists to model intercultural urban encounters in so-called ‘micro-publics’, such as the workplace or the classroom. The paper examines to what extent agonism offers a viable model for dealing with urban diversity in these mundane, social encounters. I will argue that, applied to these lower-level social contexts, agonism takes the vulnerability of citizens with regard to t…
Urban civility or urban community? A false opposition in Richard Sennett's conception of public ethos
Richard Sennett can be interpreted as one of the more robust representatives of a current critique with regard to ethnic communities in urban areas, namely, that such ethnic enclaves are a proof of urban disintegration and failing citizenship. Firstly, I take issue with Sennett's assumption that there is an inherent tension between in-group solidarity and the ability to deal with members of perceived out-groups. Secondly, instead of simply cuttin…
“A Dream, Dreamed by Reason … Hollow Like All Dreams”: French Existentialism and Its Critique of Abstract Liberalism
The recent claiming of Simone de Beauvoir's legacy by French feminists for a policy of assimilation of Muslim women to Western models of self and society reduces the complexity and richness of Beauvoir's views in inacceptable ways. This article explores to what extent a politics of difference that challenges the ideals and political strategies of abstract liberalism can be extracted from and legitimized by the philosophies of Simone de Beauvoir a…
Dealing with Urban Diversity: Promises and Challenges of City Life for Intercultural Citizenship
Intercultural citizenship seems to benefit from certain generic aspects of city life that carry a negative quality, such as “blasé attitude” or the typical “indifference” of city dwellers. The main part of this essay argues that this observation allows the formulation of a moral minimum—a threshold conception—of intercultural citizenship in the urban setting, namely, what I call side-by-side citizenship. A certain level of indifference makes poss…
Racist Variations of Bad Faith: A Critical Study of Lewis Gordon’s Phenomenology of Racism
On the affective ambivalence of living with cultural diversity
Living with cultural diversity is characterized by a fundamental affective ambivalence. On the one hand, there is existential unease in the face of cultural strangeness, which is linked to our human dependence on `common sense' - the shared background of understanding from which we derive ontological security about the world and our place in it. Through cultural contact, common sense loses something of its self-evident character, and certainties …
Social attachments as conditions for the condition of the good life? A critique of Will Kymlicka's moral monism
The moral justification of Will Kymlicka's theory of minority rights is unconvincing. According to Kymlicka, cultural embeddedness is a necessary condition for personal autonomy (which is, in turn, the precondition for the good life) and for that reason liberals should be concerned about culture. I will criticize this instrumentalism of social attachments and the moral monism behind it. On the basis of a modification of Axel Honneth's theory of r…
Législation des mariages mixtes et rapports entre catholiques et protestants
Traditionele en moderne vormen van zielzorg en apostolaat
Das Ansteigen und Absinken des Umfanges der Mischehen von Katholiken in den Niederlanden
Die hier porgelegte Studie von Pater Dr van Leeuwen O.F.M. über die Entwicklung der Mischehen in den Niederlanden stellt einen Ausschnitt dar aus den umfangreichen Untersuchungen über das Problem der Mischehen, mit denen das Katholische Institut für kirchliche Sozialforschung sich schon längerer Zeit beschäftigt. Weitere Abhandlungen über diesen äusserst bedentsamen Fragenkomplex werden folgen. Wenn wir diesen Aufsatz den verantwortlichen kirchli…
De Groei Van De Nederlandse Bisdommen
Echtscheidingen Van Katholieken in Nederland
Entwurf Eines Stutzpunktplanes Für Die Norddeutsche Diaspora
Entwurf Eines Stützpunktplanes Für Die Norddeutsche Diaspora
Dealing with Urban Diversity: Promises and Challenges of City Life for Intercultural Citizenship
Intercultural citizenship seems to benefit from certain generic aspects of city life that carry a negative quality, such as “blasé attitude” or the typical “indifference” of city dwellers. The main part of this essay argues that this observation allows the formulation of a moral minimum—a threshold conception—of intercultural citizenship in the urban setting, namely, what I call side-by-side citizenship. A certain level of indifference makes poss…
On the affective ambivalence of living with cultural diversity
Living with cultural diversity is characterized by a fundamental affective ambivalence. On the one hand, there is existential unease in the face of cultural strangeness, which is linked to our human dependence on `common sense' - the shared background of understanding from which we derive ontological security about the world and our place in it. Through cultural contact, common sense loses something of its self-evident character, and certainties …
Absorbing the agony of agonism? The limits of cultural questioning and alternative variations of intercultural civility
Recently the political philosophy of agonism has been applied by urban theorists to model intercultural urban encounters in so-called ‘micro-publics’, such as the workplace or the classroom. The paper examines to what extent agonism offers a viable model for dealing with urban diversity in these mundane, social encounters. I will argue that, applied to these lower-level social contexts, agonism takes the vulnerability of citizens with regard to t…
What is the point of urban justice? Access to human space
To the Edge of the Urban Landscape: Homelessness and the Politics of Care
Homelessness is an obvious moral challenge, given the fact that it is a problem that millions of people in the developed world have to deal with on a daily basis. In the relatively scarce literature on this subject, there appear to be—roughly—three main approaches, namely, what I will refer to as the “difference approach,” the “liberal approach” and the “care approach.” In the paper I will critically review these three moral perspectives on the i…
Législation des mariages mixtes et rapports entre catholiques et protestants
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement
Recently a number of theorists argue that physical displacement as a result of gentrification ought to be morally rejected on the basis of the principle of personal autonomy: displacement violates the option to exercise “place-based” or “located life-plans.” What is adversely violated is the neighborhood as a spatial background condition for the ability to realize embedded pursuits. I argue that this attempt to morally value social attachments to…
Social attachments as conditions for the condition of the good life? A critique of Will Kymlicka's moral monism
The moral justification of Will Kymlicka's theory of minority rights is unconvincing. According to Kymlicka, cultural embeddedness is a necessary condition for personal autonomy (which is, in turn, the precondition for the good life) and for that reason liberals should be concerned about culture. I will criticize this instrumentalism of social attachments and the moral monism behind it. On the basis of a modification of Axel Honneth's theory of r…
If we are flâneurs , can we be cosmopolitans
Walter Benjamin’s and Charles Baudelaire’s personage of the flâneur can be interpreted as a representation of the ambivalent attraction to the strange and unknown in the experience of anonymous city life, so characteristic for the modern age. To what extent can we interpret this role of the flâneur – given its essential qualities in these writings – as a representation of world citizenship? The thesis is that the flâneur is more a cosmopolitan in…
Urban civility or urban community? A false opposition in Richard Sennett's conception of public ethos
Richard Sennett can be interpreted as one of the more robust representatives of a current critique with regard to ethnic communities in urban areas, namely, that such ethnic enclaves are a proof of urban disintegration and failing citizenship. Firstly, I take issue with Sennett's assumption that there is an inherent tension between in-group solidarity and the ability to deal with members of perceived out-groups. Secondly, instead of simply cuttin…
Echtscheidingen Van Katholieken in Nederland
Entwurf Eines Stutzpunktplanes Für Die Norddeutsche Diaspora
Entwurf Eines Stützpunktplanes Für Die Norddeutsche Diaspora
Das Ansteigen und Absinken des Umfanges der Mischehen von Katholiken in den Niederlanden
Die hier porgelegte Studie von Pater Dr van Leeuwen O.F.M. über die Entwicklung der Mischehen in den Niederlanden stellt einen Ausschnitt dar aus den umfangreichen Untersuchungen über das Problem der Mischehen, mit denen das Katholische Institut für kirchliche Sozialforschung sich schon längerer Zeit beschäftigt. Weitere Abhandlungen über diesen äusserst bedentsamen Fragenkomplex werden folgen. Wenn wir diesen Aufsatz den verantwortlichen kirchli…
De Groei Van De Nederlandse Bisdommen
Traditionele en moderne vormen van zielzorg en apostolaat
Législation des mariages mixtes et rapports entre catholiques et protestants
Social attachments as conditions for the condition of the good life? A critique of Will Kymlicka's moral monism
The moral justification of Will Kymlicka's theory of minority rights is unconvincing. According to Kymlicka, cultural embeddedness is a necessary condition for personal autonomy (which is, in turn, the precondition for the good life) and for that reason liberals should be concerned about culture. I will criticize this instrumentalism of social attachments and the moral monism behind it. On the basis of a modification of Axel Honneth's theory of r…
Racist Variations of Bad Faith: A Critical Study of Lewis Gordon’s Phenomenology of Racism
On the affective ambivalence of living with cultural diversity
Living with cultural diversity is characterized by a fundamental affective ambivalence. On the one hand, there is existential unease in the face of cultural strangeness, which is linked to our human dependence on `common sense' - the shared background of understanding from which we derive ontological security about the world and our place in it. Through cultural contact, common sense loses something of its self-evident character, and certainties …
“A Dream, Dreamed by Reason … Hollow Like All Dreams”: French Existentialism and Its Critique of Abstract Liberalism
The recent claiming of Simone de Beauvoir's legacy by French feminists for a policy of assimilation of Muslim women to Western models of self and society reduces the complexity and richness of Beauvoir's views in inacceptable ways. This article explores to what extent a politics of difference that challenges the ideals and political strategies of abstract liberalism can be extracted from and legitimized by the philosophies of Simone de Beauvoir a…
Dealing with Urban Diversity: Promises and Challenges of City Life for Intercultural Citizenship
Intercultural citizenship seems to benefit from certain generic aspects of city life that carry a negative quality, such as “blasé attitude” or the typical “indifference” of city dwellers. The main part of this essay argues that this observation allows the formulation of a moral minimum—a threshold conception—of intercultural citizenship in the urban setting, namely, what I call side-by-side citizenship. A certain level of indifference makes poss…
Urban civility or urban community? A false opposition in Richard Sennett's conception of public ethos
Richard Sennett can be interpreted as one of the more robust representatives of a current critique with regard to ethnic communities in urban areas, namely, that such ethnic enclaves are a proof of urban disintegration and failing citizenship. Firstly, I take issue with Sennett's assumption that there is an inherent tension between in-group solidarity and the ability to deal with members of perceived out-groups. Secondly, instead of simply cuttin…
Absorbing the agony of agonism? The limits of cultural questioning and alternative variations of intercultural civility
Recently the political philosophy of agonism has been applied by urban theorists to model intercultural urban encounters in so-called ‘micro-publics’, such as the workplace or the classroom. The paper examines to what extent agonism offers a viable model for dealing with urban diversity in these mundane, social encounters. I will argue that, applied to these lower-level social contexts, agonism takes the vulnerability of citizens with regard to t…
To the Edge of the Urban Landscape: Homelessness and the Politics of Care
Homelessness is an obvious moral challenge, given the fact that it is a problem that millions of people in the developed world have to deal with on a daily basis. In the relatively scarce literature on this subject, there appear to be—roughly—three main approaches, namely, what I will refer to as the “difference approach,” the “liberal approach” and the “care approach.” In the paper I will critically review these three moral perspectives on the i…
If we are flâneurs , can we be cosmopolitans
Walter Benjamin’s and Charles Baudelaire’s personage of the flâneur can be interpreted as a representation of the ambivalent attraction to the strange and unknown in the experience of anonymous city life, so characteristic for the modern age. To what extent can we interpret this role of the flâneur – given its essential qualities in these writings – as a representation of world citizenship? The thesis is that the flâneur is more a cosmopolitan in…
Is architecture relevant for political theory
Is architecture relevant for political theory? That is the key question that structures this excellent collection Political Theory and Architecture, although a number of essays fit a broader formulated theme better, namely, concerning the political relevance of the organization and design of our built environment more generally, including architecture but also spatial planning and urban design. The collection demonstrates that our build environme…
What is the point of urban justice? Access to human space
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement
Recently a number of theorists argue that physical displacement as a result of gentrification ought to be morally rejected on the basis of the principle of personal autonomy: displacement violates the option to exercise “place-based” or “located life-plans.” What is adversely violated is the neighborhood as a spatial background condition for the ability to realize embedded pursuits. I argue that this attempt to morally value social attachments to…
Beyond displacement: Gentrification, misrecognition and resistance in Rotterdam's Tweebosbuurt
Contains fulltext : 321593.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Humanities (5 works)