The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin (English) Paperback Book

Description: DESCRIPTIONConceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, 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."To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." 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.Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Benjamin's writings. Kevin McLaughlin is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature.Author Biography DetailsISBN0674008022ISBN-139780674008021TitleThe Arcades ProjectAuthorWalter Benjamin, Howard Eiland, Kevin McLaughlinFormatPaperbackYear2002Pages1088PublisherHarvard University Press Color Disclaimer: Actual colors may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor has a different capability to display colors and that everyone sees these colors differently. We try to edit our photos to show the samples as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor. We cannot guarantee that the color you see accurately portrays the true color of the product. PLEASE LOOK AT THE PICTURES TO DETERMINE THE CONDITION FOR YOURSELF. IF YOU WOULD LIKE PICTURES OF OTHER ANGLES PLEASE CONTACT ME. When you receive your shipment and at the top of the carton first release the side tapes then pull up on 2 pieces of cardboard that are still attached by the middle tape so it’s not touching the item and cut the middle tape there by keeping the cutting tool away from the item that might be pressing up against the package. SHIPPED FROM A SMOKE & PET FREE HOME. DUE TO THE PANDEMIC IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THE ITEM YOU ORDER MIGHT NOT GET TO YOU IN THE ESTIMATED TIME FRAME WINDOW. MOST ITEMS ARE GETTING TO MY BUYERS IN THE ESTIMATED TIME FRAME, BUT A FEW AREN'T. DUE TO THE PANDEMIC THERE HAVE BEEN SHORTAGES IN WORKERS AT USPS OR UPS AND SOMETIMES WILL CAUSE DELAYS. There are also new changes to our USPS postal service which includes longer first class mail delivery times and cuts to post office hours. Mail traveling longer distances will also take longer due to the postal service increasing transit times. PLEASE BE PATIENT. THANK YOU!

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