Critiquing the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that served as early malls--the author, who wrote the work in the 1920s and 1930s, covers thirty-six still-trenchant topics, including fashion, boredom, photography, advertising, and prostitution, among others.
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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Howard Eiland teaches literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kevin McLaughlin is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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Anbieter: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, USA
Hardback. Zustand: Fair. To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour 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 13 years - "the theatre," as the author called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of 19th century Paris - glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centres of consumerism - Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in 36 categories with descriptive rubrics such as "fashion," "boredom," "dream city," "photography," "catacombs," "advertising," "prostitution," "baudelaire," "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. This book is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th 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. Artikel-Nr. 00102108583
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Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1850grams, ISBN:067404326X. Artikel-Nr. 4940336
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Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1850grams, ISBN:067404326X. Artikel-Nr. 4940338
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 6-11/16"" x 10-1/8", xiv + 1073pp. Printed on alkaline paper and bound in sewn signatures in blue paper covered boards with black cloth backing. Blue end papers. Light edge wear, shelf wear to cover. Binding is square and tight. Pages are clean and bright and unmarked. Artikel-Nr. 006304
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Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USA
Hardcover. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Octavo, xiv, 1073 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with metallic blue and gold lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Mild bumping to bottom edges of boards. Light scuffing to edges of textblock. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 10. 1406539. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Artikel-Nr. 1406539
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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1088 pages. 10.25x7.00x2.25 inches. In Stock. Artikel-Nr. 067404326X
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