Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals)

Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
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Author: David Frisby ISBN: 9781134459926
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: September 13, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: David Frisby
ISBN: 9781134459926
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: September 13, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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