TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benjamin,Walter
TI  - The arcades project
SN  - 0674008022 (pbk.) :
AV  - DC733 .B3813 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Arcades (Architecture)
KW  - France
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Paris
KW  - Arcades
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History
KW  - 1830-1848
KW  - 1848-1870
KW  - 1789-1900
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -