Frisby, David,

Fragments of modernity : theories of modernity in the work of Simmel, Kracauer, and Benjamin / David Frisby. - First MIT Press edition. - viii, 319 pages ; 24 cm. - Studies in contemporary German social thought . - Studies in contemporary German social thought. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index.

Introduction -- Modernite -- Georg Simmel: Modernity as an Eternal Present -- Siegfried Kracauer: 'Exemplary Instances' ofModernity -- Walter Benjamin: Prehistory of Modernity -- Conclusion. 1. 2. 3. 4.

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Simmel, Georg, 1858-1918 --Views on modernism (Aesthetics)
Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966 --Views on modernism (Aesthetics)
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Views on modernism (Aesthetics)


Modernism (Aesthetics)
Culture--Philosophy

BH301.M54 / F75 1986

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