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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.
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 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0674008022 (pbk.) :
- 9780674008021 (pbk.) :
- Passagen-Werk. English
- Arcades (Architecture) -- France
- Architecture, Modern -- 19th century -- France -- Paris
- Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Arcades -- France -- Paris -- 19th century
- Paris (France) -- History -- 1830-1848
- Paris (France) -- History -- 1848-1870
- Paris (France) -- History -- 1789-1900
- Arcades
- Manners and customs
- France -- Paris
- 1789 - 1900
- DC733 .B3813 2002
- PT2603.E455 P33513 2002
Contents:
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.
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.
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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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