Overview
- Explores a classic topic in social and cultural theory, the metropolis, as conceived by Simmel and Benjamin
- Brings in scholarship in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian for the development of urban reality
- Provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of Simmel and Benjamin’s theories of modernity
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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City and Modernity in Georg Simmel
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City and Modernity in Walter Benjamin
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Book Title: City and Modernity in Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin
Book Subtitle: Fragments of Metropolis
Authors: Vincenzo Mele
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18184-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18183-2Published: 13 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18186-3Published: 13 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18184-9Published: 12 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 396
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Sociology, Sociological Theory, Social Theory, Urban Studies/Sociology