Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance
Author:   Andrew Benjamin ,  Marjorie Perloff ,  Rainer Rumold
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
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Pages:   176
Publication Date:   01 January 2006
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Author:   Andrew Benjamin ,  Marjorie Perloff ,  Rainer Rumold
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780810123335


ISBN 10:   0810123339
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   01 January 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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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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, 2004). He is joint general editor of the Walter Benjamin Studies series published by Continuum.

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