Format:
1 online resource (337 pages)
ISBN:
9780231535793
Series Statement:
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Content:
Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as "the mass" during a critical period in European history.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. INTRODUCING THE MASSES: Vienna, 15 July 1927 -- 1. Shooting Psychosis -- 2 Not a Word About the Bastille -- 3. Explaining the Crowd -- 4. Representing Social Passions -- 5. A Work of Madness -- 6. Invincibles -- 7. Mirror for Princes -- 8. Workers on the Run -- 9. Lashing -- 2. AUTHORITY VERSUS ANARCHY: Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature -- 10. The Missing Chapter -- 11. George Simmel's Masses -- 12. In Metropolis -- 13. The Architecture of Society -- 14. Steak Tartare -- 15. Delta Formations -- 16. Alarm Bells of History -- 17. Sleepwalkers -- 18. I Am Mass -- 19. Rilke in the Revolution -- 3. THE REVOLVING NATURE OF THE SOCIAL: Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities -- 20. Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- 21. Masses Inside -- 22. In Love With Many -- 23. Primal Hordes -- 24. Masses and Myths -- 25. The Destruction of the Person -- 26. The Flaneur - Medium of Modernity -- 27. Ornaments of the People -- 28. Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- 29. Shapeless Lives -- 30. Organizing the Passions -- 4. COLLECTIVE VISION: A Matrix for New Art and Politics -- 31. Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- 32. Johanna in the Revolution -- 33. A Socialist Eye -- 34. The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- 35. Speaking Commodities -- 36. Deus Ex Machina -- 37. Democracy's Veil -- 38. The Face of the Masses -- 39. Learning to Hold a Camera -- 40. The Gaze of the Masses -- 41. Total Theater -- 5. Coda: Remnants of Weimar -- Notes -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231164788
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780231164788
Language:
English
