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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: Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. edDescription: xiv, 1073 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0674008022 (pbk.) :
  • 9780674008021 (pbk.) :
Uniform titles:
  • Passagen-Werk. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DC733 .B3813 2002
  • PT2603.E455 P33513 2002
Contents:
Translator's foreword -- Exposés: "Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century" (1935) ; "Paris, capital of the nineteenth century" (1939) -- Convolutes: Overview -- First sketches -- Early drafts: "Arcades" ; "The Arcades of Paris" ; "The Ring of Saturn" -- Addenda: Exposé of 1935, early version ; Materials for the Exposé of 1935 ; Materials for "Arcades" -- "Dialectics at a standstill" / Rolf Tiedemann -- "The story of Old Benjamin" / Lisa Fittko ; Translator's notes -- Guide to names and terms -- Index.
Summary: "The arcades project is Walter Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed 'true history' that underlay the ideological mask"--P. [4] of cover.Summary: Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources.
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Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection NA 1047 .B46 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5114583

Originally published as hbk.: c1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [955]-1015) and index.

Translator's foreword -- Exposés: "Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century" (1935) ; "Paris, capital of the nineteenth century" (1939) -- Convolutes: Overview -- First sketches -- Early drafts: "Arcades" ; "The Arcades of Paris" ; "The Ring of Saturn" -- Addenda: Exposé of 1935, early version ; Materials for the Exposé of 1935 ; Materials for "Arcades" -- "Dialectics at a standstill" / Rolf Tiedemann -- "The story of Old Benjamin" / Lisa Fittko ; Translator's notes -- Guide to names and terms -- Index.

"The arcades project is Walter Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed 'true history' that underlay the ideological mask"--P. [4] of cover.

Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources.

Translation of: Passagen-Werk.

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