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Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals): Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin - Softcover

Frisby, David

 
9780415702645: Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals): Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041570264X ISBN 13: 9780415702645
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Fragments of Modernity, first published in 1985, provides a critical introduction to the work of three of the most original German thinkers of the early twentieth century. In their different ways, all three illuminated the experience of the modern urban life, whether in mid nineteenth-century Paris, Berlin at the turn of the twentieth century or later as the vanguard city of the Weimar Republic. They related the new modes of experiencing the world to the maturation of the money economy (Simmel), the process of rationalization of capital (Kracauer) and the fantasy world of commodity fetishism (Benjamin). In each case they focus on those fragments of social experience that could best capture the sense of modernity.

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David Frisby

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041570264X
ISBN 13 
9780415702645
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320