Walter Benjamin and the Arcades project /
Series: Walter Benjamin studies seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.Description: 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:- 082646386X
- 9780826463869
- 0826463878
- 9780826463876
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | B 3209 BEN HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Issued | 16/04/2024 | 0010156 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-298) and index.
Physiognomy of a Flȃneur : Walter Benjamin's peregrinations through Paris in search of a new imaginary / Beatrice Hanssen -- Et cetera? : the historian as chiffonnier / Irving Wohlfarth -- The Flȃneur, the sandwichman, and the whore : the politics of loitering / Susan Buck-Morss -- Passage work / Barbara Johnson -- Ruin and rubble in the Arcades / Esther Leslie -- Geheimmittel : advertising and dialectical images in Benjamin's Arcades project / Max Pensky -- A matter of distance : Benjamin's One-way street through The arcades / Gerhard Richter -- "The colportage phenomenon of space" and the place of montage in The arcades project / Brigid Doherty -- Walter Benjamin's dream of "happiness" / Elissa Marder -- The dream-reality of the ruin / Stathis Gourgouris -- The enticing and threatening face of prehistory : Walter Benjamin and the utopia of glass / Detlef Mertins -- "Glass before its time, premature iron" : architecture, temporality, and dream in Benjamin's Arcades project / Tyrus Miller -- Remains to be seen / Stanley Cavell.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to Benjamin's "Arcades Project"--One of the significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era. This work explores a diverse range of issues such as the physiognomy of ruins, the dialectical image, and modernity and architecture.