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Description
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.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1999.
User reviews
LibraryThing member SamKelly
Proto-hypertext with the flaneur as the modern day idling web surfer. Prescient and beautiful.
LibraryThing member drenglish
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.
LibraryThing member emilymcmc
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.
Language
Original language
German
Original publication date
1982
ISBN
067404326X / 9780674043268
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