The diverse range of issues explored include the nature of collecting, the anatomy of melancholy, the flâneur, the physiognomy of ruins, the dialectical image, Benjamin's relation to Baudelaire, the practice of history-writing, and modernity and architecture. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project provides the first comprehensive introduction to this extraordinary work accessible to English-language readers. The three-volume opus known as The Arcades Project inspired the bravely experimental, occasionally brilliant, but often frustrating group exhibition 'The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin.' Benjamin's formidable project, composed of a mixture of quotations, notes, and commentary, is here reduced to thirty-six subject headings, each. by Walter Bendix Sch nflies Benjamin and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at .uk. By Moses May-Hobbs, BA Art History w/ Philosophy Concentration The Arcades Project is not a finished text. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Walter Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project is Benjamins effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed true history that underlay the ideological mask.

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’s Arcades Project investigates modernity, technology, and our relationship to commodities, through the singular lens of Paris’s grand shopping arcades.

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.

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