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Benjamin's Arcades
An unGuided tour
by Peter Buse, Bertrand Taithe, Ken Hirschkop, Roger Cooter, Scott McCracken, Carolyn Steedman, Bertrand Taithe
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The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin's Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits. Written by three literary scholars and one historian, this text is both a reading companion and a vigorous interpretation of one of the most important humanistic texts of the twentieth century.
Benjamin's Arcades is composed of 16 entries and a specially designed 'convoluted' index. Some of the entries confront Benjamin with a different reading of his own historical sources (Blanqui, Marx, Giedion), others look intensively at key themes, obsessions, and images (the gambler, commodity fetishism, the Angel of History, magic). Throughout there is discussion of the relationship of Benjamin's work to current and past debate on topics such as modernity, Judaism, fascism, and psychoanalysis. Benjamin's Arcades opens up Benjamin's texts to a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and will be an essential text for those seeking to better understand this extraordinary work. ;
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The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin's Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits. Written by three literary scholars and one historian, this text is both a reading companion and a vigorous interpretation of one of the most important humanistic texts of the twentieth century. Benjamin's Arcades is composed of 16 entries and a specially designed 'convoluted' index. Some of the entries confront Benjamin with a different reading of his own historical sources (Blanqui, Marx, Giedion), others look intensively at key themes, obsessions, and images (the gambler, commodity fetishism, the Angel of History, magic). Throughout there is discussion of the relationship of Benjamin's work to current and past debate on topics such as modernity, Judaism, fascism, and psychoanalysis. Benjamin's Arcades opens up Benjamin's texts to a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and will be an essential text for those seeking to better understand this extraordinary work. -
Author Biography
Peter Buse is Lecturer in English and a member of the European Studies Research Institute at the University of Salford; Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester; Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester; Scott McCracken is Lecturer in English at the University of Salford; Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date April 2006
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719069895
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 23 USD
- Pages224
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- IllustrationIllustrations, black & white
- SeriesEncounters: Cultural Histories
- Reference CodeIPR1855
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