The City of the Senses: Urban Culture and Urban Space - Rilegato

Defazio, Kimberly

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ISBN 10: 0230111599 ISBN 13: 9780230111592

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Riassunto

Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions.

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"The City of Senses is a timely contribution to understanding the 'geography of labor' and its relation to the injustices facing working people across the globe. DeFazio opens up our senses - to become more acutely aware - of how capitalist relations of production eclipse human needs in the overwhelming panorama of consumption and greed we know as neoliberal capitalism. A precise and thorough undertaking that offers a materialist reading of social practices often relegated to the cultural realm, this is critical theory at its best." - Nathalia E. Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Educational Studies and Cultural Foundations, Purdue University

"The City of the Senses is genuinely path-breaking. Its argument is not just a timely intervention in ongoing debates about the city but a comprehensive challenge to contemporary urban theory. DeFazio's analysis and argument are magisterially informed, offering transformative interpretations of texts and films from Wordsworth's poetry to Dickens' Hard Times; from Kant and Lyotard to Ikea furniture and Lost in Translation. A lasting contribution to our understanding of the relationship of culture to society." - Julian Markels, Ohio State University, author of The Marxian Imagination: Representing Class in Literature

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This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0230111599
• ISBN 13: 9780230111592
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 190