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The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin
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The Arcades Project (original 1982; edition 2002)

by Walter Benjamin

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Focusing on the arcades of 19th-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. 46 illustrations.
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Title:The Arcades Project
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It's sort of cheating to mark this as read, since you skip around for days and just enjoy. One of those books that zips together all kinds of stray bits of knowledge. ( )
  emilymcmc | Jun 24, 2023 |
I get the sense that had Middlemarch's Mr. Casaubon been a better and more confident person, he would have at best left us with the Arcades Project. ( )
  KatrinkaV | Apr 19, 2022 |
The Arcades is an impossible project: impossible to write, impossible in any ordinary sense to read. The impossibility, for Benjamin, seems to have been the point. For the reader, it makes the Arcades a kind of paradoxical or negative key to the rest of Benjamin's work. ( )
1 vote drenglish | Dec 23, 2016 |
Proto-hypertext with the flaneur as the modern day idling web surfer. Prescient and beautiful. ( )
2 vote SamKelly | Mar 14, 2011 |
See The Arcades Project at From Word to Word
2 vote jeremylukehill | Feb 24, 2009 |
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Eiland, HowardTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Das Passagen-Werk
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809Literature › By Topic › History, description and criticism of more than two literatures

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PT2603.E455Language and Literature › German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures › German literature › Individual authors or works › 1860/70-1960

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