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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.

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Introduction: Style, Time, and Appearance; Part 1. Working through Walter Benjamin; 1. Benjamin's Modernity; 2. Being Roman Now: The Time of Fashion. A Commentary on Walter Benjamin's ""Theses on the Philosophy of History"" XIV; 3. Benjamin's Style: The Style that is not Jugendstil; Part 2. Unforeseen Appearances; 4. The ""Place"" of Cosmopolitan Architecture; 5. ""In What Style Should We Build?"" The Style of Cosmopolitan Architecture; 6. Refugees, Cosmopolitanism, and the Place of Citizenship; 7. The Matter of a Materialist Philosophy of Art: Bataille's Manet.

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810123335, 978-0810123335
      ISBN10: 0810123339

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Style, Time, and Appearance; Part 1. Working through Walter Benjamin; 1. Benjamin's Modernity; 2. Being Roman Now: The Time of Fashion. A Commentary on Walter Benjamin's ""Theses on the Philosophy of History"" XIV; 3. Benjamin's Style: The Style that is not Jugendstil; Part 2. Unforeseen Appearances; 4. The ""Place"" of Cosmopolitan Architecture; 5. ""In What Style Should We Build?"" The Style of Cosmopolitan Architecture; 6. Refugees, Cosmopolitanism, and the Place of Citizenship; 7. The Matter of a Materialist Philosophy of Art: Bataille's Manet.

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