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Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
Andrew Benjamin
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Description for Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
Paperback. Offers a sustained meditation on the role of interruption in modernity. This book departs from and elaborates an important but overlooked dimension of Walter Benjamin's discourse: the question of style as it bears upon temporality and spatiality. This work suggests that the time has come to revise existing paradigms. Series Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Rumold, Rainer. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; AMA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity - the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its discontinuity with the past. Exposing the limitations of such an understanding, this book offers a very different approach: here, modernity is the site that poses the question of how we are to continue when every attempt to think and understand the present is marked by the necessity of an interruption. Through a reading of Walter Benjamin's writings - particularly on interruption, fashion, and Jugendstil (or Art Nouveau) - Andrew Benjamin in this work offers a sustained meditation on ... Read more
Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity - the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its discontinuity with the past. Exposing the limitations of such an understanding, this book offers a very different approach: here, modernity is the site that poses the question of how we are to continue when every attempt to think and understand the present is marked by the necessity of an interruption. Through a reading of Walter Benjamin's writings - particularly on interruption, fashion, and Jugendstil (or Art Nouveau) - Andrew Benjamin in this work offers a sustained meditation on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Series
Avant-garde and Modernism Studies
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810123342
SKU
V9780810123342
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About Andrew Benjamin
Andrew Benjamin is professor of critical theory in design and architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. He has also taught philosophy and architectural theory in both the United States and Europe, where he teaches regularly at the Architectural Association in London. His recent publications include Architectural Philosophy (Continuum, 2001), Philosophy's Literature (Clinamen, 2001), and Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Clinamen, ... Read more
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