By Keith Tester

ISBN-10: 1138782289

ISBN-13: 9781138782280

ISBN-10: 1138989258

ISBN-13: 9781138989252

Timely and unique, this selection of essays from the top figures of their fields throws new and worthwhile mild at the importance and way forward for flânerie. The flâneur is generally pointed out because the ‘man of the group’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of many heroes of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. The flâneur’s actions of jogging and loitering are pointed out more and more usually in sociology, cultural stories and paintings background, yet infrequently is the talk built extra. The Flâneur is the 1st ebook to increase the controversy past Baudelaire and Benjamin, and to push it in unforeseen and interesting directions.

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