Myth And Metropolis: Walter Benjamin And The City
by Graeme Gilloch /
2013 / English / PDF
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Walter Benjamin is now widely recognized as one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. This book is a study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience. Benjamin's critical account of the modern urban environment is traced through a number of key texts: the pioneering sketches of Naples, Marseilles and Moscow his childhood reminiscences of Berlin and his unfinished studies of 19th-century Paris and the poet Charles Baudelaire. The book emphasizes the importance of these writings for an interpretation of Benjamin's work as a whole, and highlights their relevance for our contemporary understanding of modernity. It should be of t to anyone concerned with Benjamin's work, and to scholars and students in social theory, cultural analysis and urban studies.
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