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

Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002

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Description xiv, 1073 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm 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 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 Notes Originally published as hbk.: c1999 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [955]-1015) and index Notes Translation of: Passagen-Werk Subject Arcades -- France -- Paris -- 19th century. SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098072 Paris (France) -- History -- 1830-1848. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098057 Paris (France) -- History -- 1848-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098059 Paris (France) -- History -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85098052 Genre/Form History. LC no. 99027615 ISBN 0674008022 (paperback) 9780674008021 (paperback) (cloth) (cloth)

Other Titles Passagen-Werk. English

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