- Social life and customs, History, Civilization, Arcades
"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.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Walter Benjamin, Jean Lacoste
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 1024
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Editions du Cerf, Belknap Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780674008021
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Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist philosopher-sociologist, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxism was more influenced by Bertolt Brecht, who had developed his own critical aesthetics, which asked for the emotional distancing of the spectator (Verfremdungseffekt). An important earlier influence and friend was Gershom Scholem, who founded the modern, academic study of the Kabbalah and of Jewish mysticism. Over the last half-century the regard for his work and its influence have risen dramatically, making Benjamin one of the most important twentieth century thinkers about literatu
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