Julian Brigstocke

The Life of the City

Space, Humour, and the Experience of Truth in Fin-de-siècle Montmartre

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Produktbeschreibung

The Life of the City is a bold and innovative reassessment of the early urban avant-garde movements that sought to re-imagine and reinvent the experiential life of the city. Constructing a ground-breaking theoretical analysis of the relationships between biological life, urban culture, and modern forms of biopolitical 'experiential authority', Julian Brigstocke traces the failed attempts of Parisian radicals to turn the 'crisis of authority' in late nineteenth-century Paris into an opportunity to invent new forms of urban commons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781138250772
• ISBN-10: 1138250775
• Artikelnr.: 57051535

Autorenporträt

Dr Julian Brigstocke is Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction: art, life, and the experience of
modernity. Part I The Life of the City: Anomalous and inhuman: black cats
and the experience of truth in Baudelaire, Manet and Poe; Order and
progress: crises of authority and the pursuit of experience in the early
Third Republic; Upsetting the festival of life: humour and the politics of
ressentiment. Part II The Chat Noir: Defiant laughter: humour and the
aesthetics of place; Counter-display and the exhibition of error; The
silent horror of the night: supernatural landscapes and the life of the
senses. Part III Anarchism, Humour and Violence: Kings of derision:
anarchist laughter and the aesthetics of violence; Conclusion: literature,
performance, and the aesthetics of authority. References; Index.