Walter Benjamin and the Arcades project edited by Beatrice Hanssen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanssen, Beatrice, editor.

Series:

Walter Benjamin studies series.

Walter Benjamin studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Passagen-Werk.

Benjamin, Walter.

Arcades--France--Paris--19th century.

Arcades.

Paris (France)--History--1830-1848.

Paris (France).

Paris (France)--History--1848-1870.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the most significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era, Walter Benjamin's unfinished Arcades Project has had a remarkable impact on present-day cultural theory, urban studies, cultural studies and literary interpretation. Originally designed as a panoramic study chronicling the rise and decline of the Parisian shopping arcades, Benjamin's work combines imaginative peregrinations through the changing city-scape of nineteenth-century Paris with passages that read like a blueprint for a new cultural theory of modernity. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project provides the first comprehensive introduction to this extraordinary work accessible to English-language readers. The diverse range of issues explored include the nature of collecting, the anatomy of melancholy, the flâneur, the physiognomy of ruins, the dialectical image, Benjamin's relation to Baudelaire, the practice of history-writing, and modernity and architecture. Contributors include Susan Buck-Morss, Stanley Cavell, Jonathan Culler, Brigid Doherty, Barbara Johnson, Esther Leslie, Gerhard Richter, Andrew Benjamin, Howard Caygill, Beatrice Hanssen, Detlef Mertins, Elissa Marder, Tyrus Miller, and Irving Wohlfarth

Contents:

Introduction: Physiognomy of a Flâneur: Walter Benjamin's Peregrinations in Search of the Dialetical Image, Beatrice Hanssen (University of Georgia)

Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonier, Irving Wohlfarth (University of Reims)

The Flâneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering, Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell Univeristy)

Passage Work, Barbara Johnson (Harvard University)

Ruin and Rubble in the Arcades, Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London)

Geheimmittel: Advertising and Dialectical Images in Benjamin's Arcades Project, Max Pensky (Binghampton, SUNY)

A Matter of Distance: Benjamin's One-Way Street through the Arcades, Gerhard Richter (UC Davis)

'The Colportage Phenomenon of Space' and the Place of Montage in the Arcades Project, Brigid Doherty (Princeton University)

Walter Benjamin's Dream of 'Happiness', Elissa Marder (Emory University)

The Dream of Reality in the Ruin, Stathis Gourgouris (UCLA)

The Enticing and Threatening Face of Prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the Utopia of Glass, Detlef Mertins (University of Pennsylvania)

Glass before its time, premature iron: Architecture, Temporality and dream in Benjamin's Arcades Project, Tyrus Miller (UC Santa Cruz)

Remains to be Seen, Stanley Cavell (Harvard University)

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-298) and index

ISBN:

9786611298814

9781441109255

1441109250

9781472547842

1472547845

9781281298812

1281298816

9781847144591

1847144594

OCLC:

290576069