Myth and Metropolis

Walter Benjamin and the City

Graeme Gilloch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

1997
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-2010-7 (ISBN)

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aeo A timely and highly accessible study of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century. aeo The author sheds new light on Benjamina s lifelong fascination with the city by examining a number of key texts, including those of Naples, Marseilles, Moscow, Paris and Berlin.

Graeme Gilloch is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford. His research interests include contemporary social and cultural theory and visual culture.

Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations.

Introduction.

1. Urban Images: From Ruins to Revolutions.

2. Urban Memories: Labyrinth and Childhood.

3. Dialectical Images: Paris and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity.

4. Urban Allegories: Paris, Baudelaire and the Experience of Modernity.

Conclusion.

Notes.

Biography.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.10.1997
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 229 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-2010-8 / 0745620108
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-2010-7 / 9780745620107
Zustand	Neuware