{"product_id":"style-and-time-essays-on-the-politics-of-appearance-avantgarde-and-modernism-studies-9780810123335","title":"Style and Time Essays on the Politics of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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.","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038253089111,"sku":"9780810123335","price":98.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810123335.jpg?v=1750939660","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/style-and-time-essays-on-the-politics-of-appearance-avantgarde-and-modernism-studies-9780810123335","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}