Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. |
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| Description: | 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Walter Benjamin studies series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6090623 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Illustrations
- 1. Introduction: Physiognomy of a Flâneur: Walter Benjamin's Peregrinations through Paris in Search of a New Imaginary
- 2. Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonnier
- 3. The Flâneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering
- 4. Passage Work
- 5. Ruin and Rubble in the Arcades
- 6. Gebeimmittel: Advertising and Dialectical Images in Benjamin's Arcades Project
- 7. A Matter of Distance: Benjamin's One-Way Street through The Arcades
- 8. 'The Colportage Phenomenon of Space' and the Place of Montage in The Arcades Project
- 9. Walter Benjamin's Dream of 'Happiness'
- 10. The Dream-Reality of the Ruin
- 11. The Enticing and Threatening Face of Prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the Utopia of Glass
- 12. 'Glass before Its Time, Premature Iron': Architecture, Temporality and Dream in Benjamin's Arcades Project
- 13. Remains to be Seen
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
