Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

Provides a comprehensive introduction to Benjamin's Arcades Project - one of the significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era. This work explores a diverse range of issues such as the physiognomy of ruins, the dialectical image, and modernity and architecture.

Acknowledgements

vi

Abbreviations

vii

Illustrations

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1 Introduction: Physiognomy of a Flaneur: Walter Benjamin's Peregrinations through Paris in Search of a New Imaginary

BEATRICE HANSSEN

1

(11)

2 Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonnier

IRVING WOHLEARTH

12

(21)

3 The Flaneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering

SUSAN BUCK-MORSS

33

(33)

4 Passage Work

BARBARA JOHNSON

66

(21)

5 Ruin and Rubble in the Arcades

ESTHER LESLIE

87

(26)

6 Geheimmittel: Advertising and Dialectical Images in Benjamin's Arcades Project

MAX PENSKY

113

(19)

7 A Matter of Distance: Benjamin's One-Way Street through The Arcades

GERHARD RICHTER

132

(25)

8 'The Colportage Phenomenon of Space' and the Place of Montage in The Arcades Project

BRIGID DOHERTY

157

(27)

9 Walter Benjamin's Dream of 'Happiness'

ELISSA MARDER

184

(17)

10 The Dream-Reality of the Ruin

STATHIS GOURGOURIS

201

(24)

11 The Enticing and Threatening Face of Prehistory: Walter Benjamin and the Utopia of Glass

DETLEF MERTINS

225

(15)

12 'Glass before Its Time, Premature Iron': Architecture, Temporality and Dram in Benjamin's Arcades Project

TYRUS MILLER

240

(19)

13 Remains to be Seen

STANLEY CAVELL

259

(6)

Notes

265

(34)

Contributors

299

(3)

Index

302

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Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

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