ISBN: 9780822365785 - benjamin now: critical encounters with the arcades project: 1 benjamin now (boundary) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. 219pp, covers minor bookshelf wear, no writing, tight binding "The Arcades Project" is the unfinished, final work of influential cultural theorist, critic, and historian, Walter Benjamin. This title presents a collection of essays to focus on this English-language translation of "The Arcades Project". It considers the significance of his theories and writings in light of this final project. 15-Mar-03.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The Arcades Project is the unfinished, final work of influential cultural theorist, critic, and historian Walter Benjamin. Until 1999, this huge, unruly manuscript, which provides a more complete picture of the diversity of Benjamin's work than formerly available, had not been fully translated into English. Benjamin Now is the first collection of essays in English to focus on The Arcades Project. While this essential text's title refers to its ostensible subject-the nineteenth-century shopping arcades of Paris-The Arcades Project is a mass of cultural, political, and social material presented in the form of a vast montage. Benjamin Now reconsiders the significance of his theories and writing.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. Paperback Octavo. illustrated wraps, 219 pp.