Abstract
This article highlights the constraints of a society whose processes of public culture destruction mediated by the erosion of human conviviality determine the boundaries of common existence. The “education crisis” described by Arendt (2007) seems to be transposed to the crisis in the city, when the exaggerated concern about children’s protection and autonomy deprives them from the art of living with and living well. Discussing the loss of the common world as a means of problematizing the experience between adults and children in the city is an important idea to be addressed, especially when the extension of the utilitarianist criteria of life challenges us to reinstate friendship and hospitality as important attitudes when facing the “foreign” child that needs to be welcomed.
Keywords
children and adults in the city; city; Hannah Arendt; adult-child relationship