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Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Beatrice Hanssen
SeriesWalter Benjamin Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:312
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780826463876
ClassificationsDewey:944.61081
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 27 July 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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

Author Biography

Beatrice Hanssen is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages, University of Georgia, USA.