Georg Simmel's Stranger and Walter Benjamin's Flaneur's Ways of Seeing and Knowing

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Georg Simmel’s stranger and Walter Benjamin’s flaneur are social types constructed and reconstructed by modern life experiences and capitalism. Thinking each of these types as social scientists and filmmakers, the study analyzes their ways of seeing and knowing. In that sense, it lays bare that the stranger and the flaneur offer alternative ways of seeing and knowing that differ from the modernist ones. Accordingly, it investigates what the possibilities and limitations of the stranger and the flaneur’s ways of seeing and knowing are, and how these possibilities and limitations are being formed. The main question of the study is how ways of seeing and knowing of these types differentiate from the modernist ones. The study claims that even though the stranger and the flaneur’s ways of seeing and knowing can make the plurality of truth and points of view possible, they do not completely go beyond modernity’s subjectivity and its experiential forms.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Stranger
• Flaneur
• Social Types
• Ways of Knowing
• Ways of Seeing
• Modernity

Georg Simmel'in Yabancısı ve Walter Benjamin'in Flanörünün Görme ve Bilme Biçimleri

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Modern yaşam deneyimleri ve kapitalizm tarafından kurulan ve yeniden kurulan Georg Simmel’in yabancısı ve Walter Benjamin’in flanörü toplumsal tiplerdir. Bu çalışma, bu tiplerin her birini sosyal bilimci ve sinemacı olarak düşünerek onların görme ve bilme biçimlerini ele alıyor. Bu manada yabancı ve flanörün modernist olanlardan farklılaşan görme ve bilme biçimleri sunduğu açıkça ortaya koyuyor. Buna bağlı olarak, yabancı ve flanörün görme ve bilme biçimlerinin imkanları ve sınırlılıklarını, bu olasılık ve sınırlılıkların nasıl biçimlendiğini araştırıyor. Buna uygun olarak, çalışmanın temel sorusu bu tiplerin görme ve bilme biçimlerinin modernist olanlardan nasıl farklılaştığıdır. Bu bağlamda onların alternatifliliğinin kapsam ve sınırlarını gösteriyor. Çalışma, yabancı ve flanörün görme ve bilme biçimleri hakikatin ve bakış açılarının çoğulluğuna dair imkanlar açmalarına rağmen, onların modernitenin öznellik ve deneyim biçimlerinin ötesine tamamıyla geçemediklerini iddia eder.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Yabancı
• Flanör
• Toplumsal Tipler
• Görme Biçimleri

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