Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-298) and index.
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Physiognomy of a Flâneur : Walter Benjamin's peregrinations through Paris in search of a new imaginary / Beatrice Hanssen -- Et cetera? : the historian as chiffonnier / Irving Wohlfarth -- The Flâneur, 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.
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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.
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