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Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2010-7
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240 pages
December 1997, Polity
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* A timely and highly accessible study of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century.
* The author sheds new light on Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city by examining a number of key texts, including those of Naples, Marseilles, Moscow, Paris and Berlin.
* This book highlights the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.

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