The Arcades Project
by Walter Benjamin and Jean Lacoste
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"Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress in 1940 when Benjamin fled the Nazis, only to find death on the Spanish border. The Arcades Project is his magnum opus: a new theory of history embodied in a new literary and philosophical historiography.
With greater concreteness than had ever been achieved in historical narrative, Benjamin's text immerses the reader in the milieu of the Paris arcades - those precursors of today's shopping malls - during the period 1830-1870, when the modern industrial world was taking shape."--BOOK JACKET.
"Like the arcades themselves, Benjamin's master-work is a vast montage in which he quotes and reflects on hundreds of topics - fashion, boredom, the collector, advertising, prostitution, photography, the theory of progress.
By excavating from printed sources a wealth of details about daily existence in nineteenth-century Paris, Benjamin brings to life a world of things - from luxury goods, building facades, posters, and clothing fashions to barricades, omnibuses, cafes, and exhibition halls."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social life and customs, History, Civilization, Arcades, Modern Architecture, Architecture, Histoire, Mœurs et coutumes, Stadscultuur, Das Passagen-Werk (Benjamin), Civilisation, Paris (france), history, Manners and customs, Arkade, Flaneur, Kultur, Buildings, structures, Filosofia contemporânea, Arcades--france--paris--19th century, Pt2603.e455 p33513 1999xPlaces
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The arcades project
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The Arcades Project
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Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle : Le Livre des passages
May 30, 1997, Cerf
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Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle: le livre des passages
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