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The arcades project

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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
Belknap Press
Language
English
Pages
1073

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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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Edition Notes

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

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
944/.361081
Library of Congress
PT2603.E455 P33513 1999, PT2603.E455P33513

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 1073 p. :
Number of pages
1073

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38951M
Internet Archive
arcadesproject1999benj
ISBN 10
067404326X
LCCN
99027615
OCLC/WorldCat
41176710
Library Thing
9592
Goodreads
1048029

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