The Arcades Project.
by Benjamin, Walter; Eiland, Howard (translator); McLaughlin, Kevin (translator)
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- ISBN 10
- 067404326X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674043268
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Cambridge:: Harvard University Press,, 1999.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine unread copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small nick to the top edge of the spine. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas."Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-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, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things--a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. The Arcades Project is 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. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and interior merge and historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things.
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- Gregor Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- The Arcades Project.
- Author
- Benjamin, Walter; Eiland, Howard (translator); McLaughlin, Kevin (translator)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067404326X
- ISBN 13
- 9780674043268
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press,
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge:
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Keywords
- literature
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