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9780826463876

Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

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    9780826463876

  • ISBN10:

    0826463878

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-08-10
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Summary

Provides a comprehensive introduction to Benjamin's Arcades Project - one of the significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era. This work explores a diverse range of issues such as the physiognomy of ruins, the dialectical image, and modernity and architecture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi
Abbreviations vii
Illustrations
viii
Introduction: Physiognomy of a Flaneur: Walter Benjamin's Peregrinations through Paris in Search of a New Imaginary
1(11)
Beatrice Hanssen
Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonnier
12(21)
Irving Wohlfarth
The Flaneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering
33(33)
Susan Buck-Morss
Passage Work
66(21)
Barbara Johnson
Ruin and Rubble in the Arcades
87(26)
Esther Leslie
Geheimmittel: Advertising and Dialectical Images in Benjamin's Arcades Project
113(19)
Max Pensky
A Matter of Distance: Benjamin's One-Way Street through The Arcades
132(25)
Gerhard Richter
`The Colportage Phenomenon of Space' and the Place of Montage in The Arcades Project
157(27)
Brigid Doherty
Walter Benjamin's Dream of `Happiness'
184(17)
Elissa Marder
The Dream-Reality of the Ruin
201(24)
Stathis Gourgouris
The Enticing and Threatening Face of Prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the Utopia of Glass
225(15)
Detlef Mertins
`Glass before Its Time, Premature Iron': Architecture, Temporality and Dream in Benjamin's Arcades Project
240(19)
Tyrus Miller
Remains to be Seen
259(6)
Stanley Cavell
Notes 265(34)
Contributors 299(3)
Index 302

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