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Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals): Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin book cover

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Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals) Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin

By David Frisby Copyright 1986
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

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David Frisby

"[A] systemically organised and meticulously documented study … This rich and sensitively argued book will be an essential guide to at least one important strand of contemporary thinking about modernity" – Times Higher Education Supplement

"An essential resource not only for students of 20th-century German thought, but also for anyone wrestling with the dilemmas of contemporary existence" – Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley

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