Paris the capital of modernity

Introduction: Modernity as break; Representations: Paris 1830-1848: The myths of modernity: Balzac´s Paris; dreaming the body politics: Revolutionary politics and utopian schemes, 1830-1848; Materializations: Paris 1848-1870: The organization of space relations; Money, credit and finance; Rent and the propertied interest; The state; Astract and concrete labor; The buying and selling of labor power; The condition of women; The reproduction of labor power; Consumerism, spectacle, and leisure; Community and class; Natural relations; Science and sentiment, modernity and tradition; Rethoric and representation; The geopolitics of urban transformation. Coda : The building of the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur.