03061nam 2200457 450 991064426320332120230503144525.09783031181849(electronic bk.)978303118183210.1007/978-3-031-18184-9(MiAaPQ)EBC7176595(Au-PeEL)EBL7176595(CKB)25998106500041(DE-He213)978-3-031-18184-9(EXLCZ)992599810650004120230503d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCity and modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin fragments of metropolis /Vincenzo Mele1st ed. 2022.Cham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2022]©20221 online resource (399 pages)Marx, Engels, and MarxismsPrint version: Mele, Vincenzo City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031181832 1. Introduction: Investigating Postmodernity through Modernity. -- 2. Metropolis as general Form of Modernity -- 3. Georg Simmel’s Theory of Knowledge -- 4. Sociological Aesthetic of Modernity.-5. Metropolis, Money and the Style of Modern Life -- 6. Metropolization of Social Life: How is Society Possible? -- 7. What is The Arcades Project? -- 8. Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Knowledge -- 9. The Phantasmagoria of Modernity: Benjamin on Commodity Fetishism -- 10. Benjamin and Baudelaire as the lyric poet in the age of mature capitalism -- 11. Metropolis as Tragedy, Metropolis as Trauerspiel -- .This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of George Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses in 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; 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.Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.Sociology, UrbanSociology, Urban.193Mele Vincenzo5250MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910644263203321City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin3271814UNINA