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The arcades project / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin ; prepared on the basis of the German volume edited by Rolf Tiedemann

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap, 1999Description: xiv,1073 p. : ill. ; 27cmISBN:
  • 9780674043268
  • 9780674043268
Uniform titles:
  • Passagen-Werk. English
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Contents:
Exposés. "Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century" -- Convolutes. Overview -- First sketches -- Early drafts. "Arcades" ; "The Arcades of Paris" ; "The Ring of Saturn" -- Materials for "Arcades" -- "Dialectics at a standstill" -- "The story of Old Benjamin".
Summary: This work is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed true history that underlay the ideological mask.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [955]-1015) and index.

Exposés. "Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century" -- Convolutes. Overview -- First sketches -- Early drafts. "Arcades" ; "The Arcades of Paris" ; "The Ring of Saturn" -- Materials for "Arcades" -- "Dialectics at a standstill" -- "The story of Old Benjamin".

This work is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed true history that underlay the ideological mask.

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