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.
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Table of Content
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.
About the author
Graeme Gilloch is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford. His research interests include contemporary social and cultural theory and visual culture.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 236 ● ISBN 9780745666860 ● File size 0.5 MB ● Publisher John Wiley & Sons ● Published 2013 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2706787 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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