The detective of modernity : essays on the work of David Frisby / edited by Georgia Giannakopoulou and Graeme Gilloch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giannakopoulou, Georgia, 1975- editor.

Gilloch, Graeme, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Classical and contemporary social theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frisby, David.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 229 pages).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Georgia Giannakopoulou is Associate Lecturer in Sociology and the International Honors Program at ACG-Deree, The American College of Greece and an Affiliate Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Graeme Gilloch is Professor in Sociology at Lancaster University and the author of Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations; Siegfried Kracauer, Our Companion in Misfortune; and Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City.

Contents:

<P>Introduction </P><I><P>Georgia Giannakopoulou and Graeme Gilloch</P></I><B><P>Part 1: Modernity, Metropolis and Method</P></B><P>1. Critical Sociology: The Methodological Controversy</P><I><P>Matthias Benzer</P></I><P>2. Siegfried Kracauer's Metaphysics of the Passage and Methodology of Social Science</P><I><P>Changnam Lee</P></I><P>3. The Metropolis and Emotional Life: Experience, Rifts and Knowledge </P><I><P>Massimo Cerulo and Antonio Rafele</P></I><P>4. The Social Experience of Urban Life: The Aesthetical Interpretation of Places and Ambiances</P><I><P>Fabio La Rocca</P></I><B><P>Part 2: Fragments and Faces</P></B><P>5. The Street and the Fragment Aesthetics of Experience; Aesthetics of the Particular in David Frisby</P><I><P>Esther Leslie</P></I><P>6. Cinematic 'Fragments of Modernity': Film and Society Revisited</P><I><P>Spiros Gangas</P></I><P>7. On the Face of Things. Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer on Physiognomy and Film</P><I><P>Stéphane Symons</P></I><B><P>Part 3: Cityscapes</P></B><P>8. Fragments of Cityscapes</P><I><P>Günter Gassner</P></I><P>9. Urban Aestheticization Processes: Cityscape, Landscape and Image</P><I><P>Mike Featherstone</P></I><P>10. Architecture and Fashion in <I>fin-de-siécle</I> Vienna</P><I><P>Iain Boyd-Whyte</P></I><B><P>Part 4: Haunts</P></B><P>11. Flâneurs, Detectives and Architects</P><I><P>Christian Hermansen</P></I><P>12. Cotton and Other Threads</P><I><P>Janet Wolff</P></I><P>13. In Search of Lost Streets</P><I><P>Elizabeth Wilson</P></I><B><P>Part 5: Figures</P></B><P>14. "<I>Hamlet wird Detektiv</I>": Reflections on Benjamin, Kracauer and (Neo-)<I>Noir</P><P>Graeme Gilloch</P></I><P>15. The Collector's Touch: The Task of the Cultural Critic in the Age of Digital Media</P><I><P>Jaeho Kang</P></I><P>16. Unmasking the <I>Flâneur</P><P>Georgia Giannakopoulou</P></I>

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: The detective of modernity

ISBN:

9780429201370

0429201370

9780429574757

0429574754

9780429576867

0429576862

9780429572647

0429572646

Publisher Number:

40030337032

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