One of the most significant cultural documents of the Weimar
Republic and Nazi era, Walter Benjamin's unfinished Arcades Project
has had a remarkable impact on present-day cultural theory, urban
studies, cultural studies and literary interpretation. Originally
designed as a panoramic study chronicling the rise and decline of
the Parisian shopping arcades, Benjamin's work combines imaginative
peregrinations through the changing city-scape of
nineteenth-century Paris with passages that read like a blueprint
for a new cultural theory of modernity. Walter Benjamin and the
Arcades Project provides the first comprehensive introduction to
this extraordinary work accessible to English-language readers. The
diverse range of issues explored include the nature of collecting,
the anatomy of melancholy, the flaneur, the physiognomy of ruins,
the dialectical image, Benjamin's relation to Baudelaire, the
practice of history-writing, and modernity and architecture.
Contributors include Susan Buck-Morss, Stanley Cavell, Jonathan
Culler, Brigid Doherty, Barbara Johnson, Esther Leslie, Gerhard
Richter, Andrew Benjamin, Howard Caygill, Beatrice Hanssen, Detlef
Mertins, Elissa Marder, Tyrus Miller, and Irving Wohlfarth
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