The arcades project /

By:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: 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

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0674008022 (pbk.)
9780674008021 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Passagen-Werk. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

944/.361081 21

LOC classification:

DC733 .B3813 2002
PT2603.E455 P33513 2002

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.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.

List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	DC733 .B3813 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Reserves	16055001493

Originally published as hbk.: c1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [955]-1015) and index.

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