The Arcades Project

Informationen zum Autor Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Benjamin’s writings. Kevin McLaughlin is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature . Klappentext "The Arcades Project" is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th-century history, and, in doing so, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. 42 halftones. Zusammenfassung Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940! The Arcades Project is Benjamin's 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.

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• Authors: Walter Benjamin, Benjamin Walter
• Assisted by: Rolf Tiedemann (Editor), Howard Eiland (Translation), Eiland Howard (Translation), Kevin Mclaughlin (Translation), McLaughlin Kevin (Translation)
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2002
• EAN: 9780674008021
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00802-1
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 255 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, European History, English, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Essays, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary essays