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Le Livre des passages

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Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle

Le Livre des passages

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"Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress in 1940 when Benjamin fled the Nazis, only to find death on the Spanish border. The Arcades Project is his magnum opus: a new theory of history embodied in a new literary and philosophical historiography.

With greater concreteness than had ever been achieved in historical narrative, Benjamin's text immerses the reader in the milieu of the Paris arcades - those precursors of today's shopping malls - during the period 1830-1870, when the modern industrial world was taking shape."--BOOK JACKET.

"Like the arcades themselves, Benjamin's master-work is a vast montage in which he quotes and reflects on hundreds of topics - fashion, boredom, the collector, advertising, prostitution, photography, the theory of progress.

By excavating from printed sources a wealth of details about daily existence in nineteenth-century Paris, Benjamin brings to life a world of things - from luxury goods, building facades, posters, and clothing fashions to barricades, omnibuses, cafes, and exhibition halls."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Cerf
Language
French
Pages
972

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Cover of: The arcades project
The arcades project
2002, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
in English - 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Cover of: The Arcades Project
The Arcades Project
March 30, 2002, Belknap Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: The arcades project
The arcades project
1999, Belknap Press
in English
Cover of: Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle
Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle : Le Livre des passages
May 30, 1997, Cerf
Paperback in French
Cover of: Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle
Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle: le livre des passages
1993, Cerf
in French - 2e ed.
Cover of: Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle
Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle: Le livre des passages
1989, Editions du Cerf
in French

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
972
Dimensions
9 x 5.7 x 1.7 inches
Weight
2.8 pounds

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL8864022M
ISBN 10
2204031577
ISBN 13
9782204031578
LibraryThing
9592
Goodreads
777502

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OL156207W

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