(P/B) THE ARCADES PROJECT

Παρουσίαση

THE ARCADES PROJECT is Walter Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) was constructed over the course of thirteen years-"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translators' Foreword
Exposes
"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
Expose of 1935, Early Version
Materials for the Expose of 1935
Materials for "Arcades"
"Dialectics at a Standstill," by Rolf Tiedemann
"The Story of Old Benjamin," by Lisa Fittko
Translators' Notes
Guide to Names and Terms
Index