Beschreibung:
Walter Benjamin is now widely recognized as one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century. This book, now available in paperback is a timely and lucid study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience.
Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Urban Images: From Ruins to Revolutions. 2. Urban Memories: Labyrinth and Childhood. 3. Dialectical Images: Paris and the Phantasmagoria of Modernity. 4. Urban Allegories: Paris, Baudelaire and the Experience of Modernity. Conclusion. Notes. Biography. Index.