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A lucid study study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience. Essential reading for anyone interested with Walter Benjamin's work.DARK HORSEY says-Walter Benjamin & the City - examines Wally's contribtuion to theories of the City & modernity thru his writings on childhood experience of Berlin, his accounts of Naples, Moscow & Paris, & his imaginative recreation of Charles Baudelaire's Paris of the flanneur, the arcade, the soubrette, Manet & clubs like the Rat Morte, Backbiters & Le Chat Noire - a site of cruelly rapid modernization with its attendant romance & alienation. Gilloch's book is a very good introduction to Benjamin's account & to the commentary upon & influence of his theories- on writers, philosphers & in cultural studies - Bataille, Breton, Aragon, Adorno & others since. |
