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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.
Van Pelt Library PT2603.E455 P33513 1999
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Standardized Title:
- Passagen-Werk. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Arcades--France--Paris--19th century.
- Arcades.
- Paris (France)--History--1830-1848.
- Paris (France).
- Paris (France)--History--1848-1870.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Manners and customs.
- France--Paris.
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Local Subjects:
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 1073 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- 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. 46 illustrations.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [955]-1015) and index.
- ISBN:
- 067404326X
- 9780674043268
- OCLC:
- 41176710
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