The arcades project / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin ; prepared...
The arcades project / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin ; prepared...
The arcades project / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin ; prepared on the basis of the German volume edited by Rolf Tiedemann.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1999.
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Date
1999.
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N944.361081/1
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Language
English
German
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Physical content
xiv, 1073 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
"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 l...
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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.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [955]-1015) and index.
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Translated from the German.
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N944.361081/1
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74VvWjBrXgMM
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ISBN
067404326X :
067404326X (alk. paper)
DDC
944.361081
MMS ID
991012081629702626
