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The Flâneur

By Keith Tester (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
1138782289, 9781138782280
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8608169 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Edition
1
Pages
216\216
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-05-30 09:15:45
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Description

Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. The flâneur’s activities of strolling and loitering are mentioned increasingly frequently in sociology, cultural studies and art history, but rarely is the debate developed further. The Flâneur is the first book to develop the debate beyond Baudelaire and Benjamin, and to push it in unexpected and exciting directions.

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