Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer, and Benjamin (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

By David Frisby

Book Overview

Fragments of Modernity provides a critical introduction to the work of three of themost original German thinkers of the early 20th century. In their different ways, all threeilluminated the experience of the modern in urban life, whether in mid-19th-century Paris or inBerlin at the turn of the century or later as the vanguard city of the Weimar Republic. They relatedthe new modes of experiencing the world to the maturation of the money economy (Simmel), the processof rationalization of capital (Kracauer), and the fantasy world of commodity fetishism (Benjamin) -in each case focusing on those fragments of social experience that could best capture the sense ofmodernity.David Frisby is Reader in Sociology at Glasgow University. Fragments of Modernity isincluded in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by ThomasMcCarthy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262560461
• ISBN13: 9780262560467
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"