Fragments of modernity : theories of modernity in the work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin / / David Frisby

• Autore: Frisby David
• Pubblicazione: Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 111.85
• Soggetto topico: Modernism (Aesthetics); Culture - Philosophy
• Note generali: First published by Polity Press 1985. First published by MIT Press 1986.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Modernité; 2 Georg Simmel: Modernity as an Eternal Present; 3 Siegfried Kracauer: 'Exemplary Instances' of Modernity; 4 Walter Benjamin: Prehistory of Modernity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 (
• Titolo autorizzato: Fragments of modernity
• ISBN: 1-134-45992-0; 0-415-70264-X; 0-203-79556-3; 1-134-45985-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790548903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Revivals