Modernism in the streets: a life and times in essays 9781784784980, 9781784784997, 9781784785000, 1784784982

Table of contents :
Part two. Radical times. The politics of authenticity --
Alienation, community, freedom --
Notes toward a new society --
Unchained melody. Part three. Living for the city. Take it to the streets --
Buildings are judgment, or "what man can build" --
Views from the burning bridge --
New York calling. Part four. Jay talking. The dancer and the dance (Karl Marx) --
Still waiting at the station (Edmund Wilson) --
Angel in the city (Walter Benjamin) --
Cosmic chutzpah (Georg Likács). Part five. The bright book of life. The Jewish patient (Franz Kafka) --
Waiting for the barbarians (Issac Babel) --
In the night kitchen (Alfred Kazin) --
The bright book of life (Orhan Pamuk). Part six. Signs in the street. Signs in the street --
Underground man --
Broadway, love, and theft --
"Justice / just us." Part seven. The romance of public space. Introduction / Shellie Sclan --
The romance of public space --
The bible and public space.

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