City And Modernity In Georg Simmel And Walter Benjamin

Author : Vincenzo Mele
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031181832
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin written by Vincenzo Mele and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity; how are the concepts of history and society possible; the consequences of modern metropolis on the construction of individual subjectivity; the aestheticization of everyday life caused by the expansion of commodity culture; and the female culture as a counter-power to the domination of masculine objective culture. In the decades since Simmel and Benjamin, urban reality has undergone profound changes and we may even question the very existence of the subject of analysis: what is the city, the metropolis in today’s context of globalization and capital flows? Simmel’s and Benjamin’s metropolis has thus become an “endless city," beyond the physical and geographical confines of urban reality.

Author : Vincenzo Mele
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031181840
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin written by Vincenzo Mele and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity; how are the concepts of history and society possible; the consequences of modern metropolis on the construction of individual subjectivity; the aestheticization of everyday life caused by the expansion of commodity culture; and the female culture as a counter-power to the domination of masculine objective culture. In the decades since Simmel and Benjamin, urban reality has undergone profound changes and we may even question the very existence of the subject of analysis: what is the city, the metropolis in today’s context of globalization and capital flows? Simmel’s and Benjamin’s metropolis has thus become an “endless city," beyond the physical and geographical confines of urban reality.

Author : Steve Pile
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847871542
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Cities written by Steve Pile and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-03-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′...this is a book with an interesting thesis, and a welcome contribution to the literature. Pile has opened up a productive theoretical and empirical space for further study and exploration′ - RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life. Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a series of unusual and exciting case studies. In this study, four substantial phantasmagorias are identified: dreams, magic, vampires and ghosts. The investigation of each phantasmagoria is developed using a wide variety of clear examples. Thus, voodoo in New York and New Orleans shows how ideas about magic are forged within cities. Meanwhile vampires reveal how specific fears about sex and death are expressed within, and circulate between, cities such as London and Singapore. Taken together, such examples build a unique picture of the diverse roles of the imaginary, fantastic and the emotional in modern city life. What is "real" about the city has radical consequences for how we think about improving city life, for all too often these are over-looked in utopian schemes for the city. Real Cities forcefully argues that an appreciation of urban phantasmagorias must be central to what is considered real about city life.

Author : David Frisby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134459858
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals) written by David Frisby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Graeme Gilloch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745666868
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Metropolis written by Graeme Gilloch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.

Author : David Frisby
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780745601892
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Modernity written by David Frisby and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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--Amazon.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674010765
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Selected Writings: 1938-1940 written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.

Author : Philip Kasinitz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081474639X
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolis written by Philip Kasinitz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an urban Society

Author : David Frisby
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745626253
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cityscapes of Modernity written by David Frisby and published by Polity. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new volume, David Frisby provides an original and critical examination of the construction and experience of metropolitan modernity. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Frisby seeks to reveal some key features of metropolitan experience in modernity. Among the issues examined are Benjamin's account of the flaneur and its relevance for social investigation and urban detection; Simmel's influential essay on the metropolis; contrasting interpretations of fin-de-siecle Berlin and Vienna by Sombart; the work of Otto Wagner; and the response to the modern metropolis as highlighted in German Expressionism and Weimar Berlin. Cityscapes of Modernity will be a valuable text for students of sociology, social theory, urban theory, cultural studies and architectural history, as well as all those interested in the urban culture of modernity.

Author : Stéphane Symons
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810135795
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than Life written by Stéphane Symons and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art is the first book to trace the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. Reading Simmel’s work, particularly his essays on Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin, alongside Benjamin’s concept of Unscheinbarkeit (inconspicuousness) and his writings on Charlie Chaplin, More Than Life demonstrates that both Simmel and Benjamin conceive of art as the creation of something entirely new rather than as a mimetic reproduction of a given. The two thinkers diverge in that Simmel emphasizes the presence of a continuous movement of life, whereas Benjamin highlights the priority of discontinuous, interruptive moments. With the aim of further elucidating Simmel and Benjamin’s ideas on art, Stéphane Symons presents a number of in-depth analyses of specific artworks that were not discussed by these authors. Through an insightful examination of both the conceptual affinities and the philosophical differences between Simmel and Benjamin , Symons reconstructs a crucial episode in twentieth-century debates on art and aesthetics.