WALTER BENJAMIN, THE PHILOSOPHER OF URBANISM

• Authors: Marcelli M.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The contribution focuses on two significant motifs of Benjamin's philosophy of urbanism, developed especially in connection with his considerations of the 19th century Paris: the city scene and the world of notions of urbanism, unified into metaphysics. It turns out that Benjamin as a 'city-thinker' can be considered a follower of F. Nietzsche, and his follower, on the other hand, can be considered M. Foucault. All three of them stage for their philosophical utterances urban environments (Benjamin particularly as a thinker of luxury and urban 'landscape'), for which the arrangement not resulting in the general philosophical notions but in the intentions of 'metaphysics of locality' turning the city back to itself, is characteristic. The author shows how it is possible to follow this Benjaminian metaphysics of locality graphically in the example of his description of Paris panoramas of the 19th century

Keywords

EN

BENJAMIN WALTER; METAPHYSICS; PARIS PANORAMA; URBANISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-26
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marcelli M.

• M. Marcelli, Ustav svetovej literatury SAV, Konventna 13, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA04108007