Fragments of Modernity

Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-70264-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 142 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frisby, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; 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

Über Autor(innen)

David Frisby