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Zusatztext "[A] systemically organised and meticulously documented study ? This rich and sensitively argued book will be an essential guide to at least one important strand of contemporary thinking about modernity" - Times Higher Education Supplement"An essential resource not only for students of 20th-century German thought! but also for anyone wrestling with the dilemmas of contemporary existence" - Martin Jay! University of California! Berkeley Informationen zum Autor David Frisby Zusammenfassung First published in 1986, this book provides a critical introduction to the work of three of the most original German thinkers of the early twentieth century. In each case they focus on those fragments of social experience that could best capture the sense of modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Modernité 2. Georg Simmel: Modernity as an Eternal Present 3. Siegfried Kracauer: ‘Exemplary Instances’ of Modernity 4. Walter Benjamin: Prehistory of Modernity ; Conclusion; Notes, Bibliography; Index
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Modernité 2. Georg Simmel: Modernity as an Eternal Present 3. Siegfried Kracauer: 'Exemplary Instances' of Modernity 4. Walter Benjamin: Prehistory of Modernity; Conclusion; Notes, Bibliography; Index
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"[A] systemically organised and meticulously documented study ... This rich and sensitively argued book will be an essential guide to at least one important strand of contemporary thinking about modernity" - Times Higher Education Supplement
"An essential resource not only for students of 20th-century German thought, but also for anyone wrestling with the dilemmas of contemporary existence" - Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley
