City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin Fragments of Metropolis 1st edition by Vincenzo Mele 3031181849 9783031181849

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ISBN-10 :  3031181849 

ISBN-13 :  9783031181849

Author :  Vincenzo Mele 

This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought. The author focuses on five main topics: the historical-sociological method through which they investigate modernity; how are the concepts of history and society possible; the consequences of modern metropolis on the construction of individual subjectivity; the aestheticization of everyday life caused by the expansion of commodity culture; and the female culture as a counter-power to the domination of masculine objective culture. In the decades since Simmel and Benjamin, urban reality has undergone profound changes and we may even question the very existence of the subject of analysis: what is the city, the metropolis in today’s context of globalization and capital flows? Simmel’s and Benjamin’s metropolis has thus become an “endless city,” beyond the physical and geographical confines of urban reality.

City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin: Fragments of Metropolis 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Investigating Postmodernity Through Modernity
2. Metropolis and Modernity
Part I. City and Modernity in Georg Simmel
3. Deconstructing History, Morality, and Society: Simmel’s Theory of Knowledge
4. The Sociological Aesthetics of Modernity
5. Monetary Culture and the Intensification of Nervous Life
6. The Metropolization of Social Life
Part II. City and Modernity in Walter Benjamin
7. What Is The Arcades Project?
8. Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Knowledge
9. The Phantasmagoria of Modernity: On Commodity Fetishism
10. Baudelaire as the Lyric Poet in the Age of Mature Capitalism
11. Conclusions: Metropolis as Tragedy, Metropolis as Trauerspiel

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