Towards the Poetics of Observation

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Federico José Xamist

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The present essay aims to locate the category of the «modernity» in a wider context, beyond that of an aesthetic movement or historical period. The purpose is to drive it towards a description of the current experience of time, determined by the way of life developed in the big city. From this point, it is possible to understand urban time as a specifi c feature of the experience of the present time. Moreover, it is also possible to understand observation as an action derived from life in the city. With this subject, we present a comparative study of Georg Simmel’s sociological theory, the poetics suggested by Baudelaire in his writings on art and Edgar Allan Poe’s short story «The Man in the Crowd».

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Federico José Xamist

Facultad de Filosofía
Universidad de Atenas. Grecia
xamist@gmail.com