… This study provides a detailed reading and examination of Benjamin’s city writings with a
view to uncovering such relationships. My aim is to identify and explore Benjamin’s critical …

… , Simmel and Benjamin, was the modern metropolis, within which … city as the si te of the decay
of traditions, and the use of myth … In Benjamin's terms, this is a species of the activity of the …

… Benjamin's highly ambivalent perception of the city is located in a vast study dedicated to the
critical revelation of the modern metropolis … , to the representation of the city as the essential …

… En la segunda parte, Walter Benjamin, hacia la experiencia urbana, nos centramos en la
figura de Walter Benjamin. Su pensamiento alrededor de la que llamó ciudad de la multitud es …

In trying to tell the story of how people have attempted to theorize the economic and social
life of cities the name of Walter Benjamin is commonly absent from what we might loosely …

… city, namely, the writings of Walter Benjamin and James Joyce. … to Benjamin’s idea that the
modern city is a locus of myth and … of the metropolis is one facet of modern, metropolitan myth. …

… The metropolis has similar theoretical and biographical importance in Walter Benjamin’s …
He devoted fourteen years to his unfinished work on the arcades of Paris (Benjamin 2002 [1982]…

… Walter Benjamin, the German literary and cultural critic, as a guide to the "wider expanses" of
the city … His insistence t self-reflection and political action remov realm of metaphor and myth…

… nist myth, I shall first discuss Benjamin's theorizing of modernity in relation to the idea of the
city … emerges as one of a countless number of ordinary city-dwellers who read metropolitan …

This chapter aims to clarify why the metropolis can be considered the “general social form”
of Western European modernity and what its main problems are. The beginning of the …