The Flaneur (RLE Social Theory)

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Routledge, 21 août 2014 - 216 pages

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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List of figures
The flâneur on and off the streets of Paris
from spectator to representation
Walter Benjamins notes on flânerie
The flâneur in social theory
Rodin Rilke and Gwen John in Paris
Desert spectacular
Gastroporn fast food and panic eating
The hopeless game of flânerie
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