This is the first comprehensive introduction to Benjamins unfinished ArcadesProject one of the most significant cultural documents of the WeimarRepublic and Na... » 

This is the first comprehensive introduction to Benjamins unfinished ArcadesProject one of the most significant cultural documents of the WeimarRepublic and Nazi era. Walter Benjamins unfinished Arcades Project has had aremarkable impact on presentday cultural theory urban studies culturalstudies and literary interpretation. Originally designed as a panoramic studychronicling the rise and decline of the Parisian shopping arcades Benjaminswork combines imaginative peregrinations through the changing cityscape ofnineteenthcentury Paris with passages that read like a blueprint for a newcultural theory of modernity. Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Projectprovides the first comprehensive introduction to this extraordinary workaccessible to Englishlanguage readers. The diverse range of issues exploredinclude the fl and No. 226 neur the physiognomy of ruins the dialecticalimage and modernity and architecture. The contributors include Susan BuckMorss Stanley Cavell Brigid Doherty Stathis Gourgouris Barbara JohnsonEsther Leslie Gerhard Richter Beatrice Hanssen Detlef Mertins ElissaMarder Tyrus Miller Max Pensky and Irving Wohlfarth. «