| The Arcades Project
By Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland (Translator), Kevin Mclaughlin (Translator), Rolf Tiedemann (Editor)
ISBN: 9780674008021 ASIN: B007YZWP2K
Published: 2002
Number of Pages: 1088
Edition: Other
Binding: Paperback |
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Publisher: Belknap Press
Description: "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years--"the theater," as Benjamin called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris-glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Dream City," "Photography," "Catacombs," "Advertising," "Prostitution," "Baudelaire," and "Theory of Progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things--a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. The Arcades Project is 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. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and interior merge and historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things. (20001203) |
Library of Congress Control Number
- LC control Number:
99027615 National Bibliography Number:
GBA2-Y9687International Standard Book Number:
0674008022 (pbk.):
067404326X (cloth)Language Code
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title:
eng - Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text:
gerGeographic Area Code:
e-fr---Library of Congress Call Number
- Classification number:
DC715 - Classification number:
PT2603.E455 - Item number:
.B3213 2002 - Item number:
P33513 1999Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- Edition number:
21 - Classification number:
944.361081Main Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Benjamin, Walter, - Dates associated with a name:
1892-1940 - Dates associated with a name:
1892-1940.Uniform Title:
Passagen-Werk. - Language of a work:
EnglishTitle Statement
- Title:
The arcades project / - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
by Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin ; prepared on the basis of the German volume edited by Rolf Tiedemann. - Statement of responsibility, etc.:
Walter Benjamin ; translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin ; prepared on the basis of the German volume edited by Rolf Tiedemann.Edition Statement:
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
- Place of publication, distribution, etc.:
Cambridge, Mass. : - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.:
Belknap Press, - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
1999. - Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
2002, c1999.Physical Description
- Extent:
xiv, 1073 p. : - Other physical details:
ill. ; - Dimensions:
26 cm. - Dimensions:
27 cm.General Note:
Translation of: Das Passagen-Werk.Bibliography, etc. Note
- Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [955]-1015) and index - Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Formatted Contents Note:
Expos�es. "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. Expos�e of 1935, early version ; Materials for the Expos�e of 1935 ; Materials for "Arcades" -- "Dialectics at a standstill" / Rolf Tiedemann -- "The story of Old Benjamin" / Lisa Fittko.:
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 ; Materials for the Exposé of 1935 ; Materials for "Arcades" -- "Dialectics at a standstill" / Rolf Tiedemann -- "The story of Old Benjamin" / Lisa Fittko ; Translator's notes -- Guide to names and terms -- IndexSubject Added Entry - Topical Term
- Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Arcades - Topical term or geographic name entry element:
Architecture and society. - General subdivision:
History - Chronological subdivision:
19th century. - Geographic subdivision:
France - Geographic subdivision:
ParisSubject Added Entry - Geographic Name
- Geographic name:
Paris (France) - General subdivision:
Buildings, structures, etc. - General subdivision:
History - General subdivision:
Social life and customs - Chronological subdivision:
1830-1848. - Chronological subdivision:
1848-1870. - Chronological subdivision:
19th century.Added Entry - Personal Name
- Personal name:
Eiland, Howard. - Personal name:
McLaughlin, Kevin, - Personal name:
Tiedemann, Rolf - Personal name:
Tiedemann, Rolf. - Dates associated with a name:
1959-