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9780719069888

Benjamin's Arcades : An Unguided Tour

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  • ISBN13:

    9780719069888

  • ISBN10:

    0719069882

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2006-09-19
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Summary

The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. This book looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits. Written by three literary scholars and one historian, this text is both a reading companion and a vigorous interpretation of one of the most important humanistic texts of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Peter Buse is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at The University of Salford.Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at The University of Manchester. Scott McCracken is Professor of English at Keele University. Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Preface: beginnings vii
Acknowledgements x
References and abbreviations xi
Encounters: introductory notes and historical perspectives
1(12)
Arcades
13(17)
Method
30(11)
Judaism
41(7)
Modernity/modernism
48(11)
Magic
59(12)
Empathy/Einfuhlung
71(12)
Insurrection
83(12)
The Angel of History
95(10)
Awakening
105(8)
Advertising
113(12)
Nations
125(11)
Jeux/joie/jouissance
136(12)
Idleness
148(10)
Night
158(15)
Nazis
173(11)
Ending
184(3)
Bibliography 187(12)
Index 199

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