boundary 2 2003 spring number1 vol.30 Benjamin Now: Critical Encounters with The Arcades Project

Kevin McLaughlin; Philip Rosen

ISBN 10: 0822365782 / ISBN 13: 9780822365785

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2003

Beschreibung

219pp, covers minor bookshelf wear, no writing, tight binding "The Arcades Project" is the unfinished, final work of influential cultural theorist, critic, and historian, Walter Benjamin. This title presents a collection of essays to focus on this English-language translation of "The Arcades Project". It considers the significance of his theories and writings in light of this final project. 15-Mar-03.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780822365785 NaE2-5

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: boundary 2 2003 spring number1 vol.30 Benjamin Now: Critical Encounters with The Arcades Project
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0822365782
• ISBN-13: 9780822365785
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

The Arcades Project is the unfinished, final work of influential cultural theorist, critic, and historian Walter Benjamin. Until 1999, this huge, unruly manuscript, which provides a more complete picture of the diversity of Benjamin’s work than formerly available, had not been fully translated into English. Benjamin Now is the first collection of essays in English to focus on The Arcades Project.

While this essential text’s title refers to its ostensible subject-the nineteenth-century shopping arcades of Paris-The Arcades Project is a mass of cultural, political, and social material presented in the form of a vast montage. Benjamin Now reconsiders the significance of his theories and writings in light of this final project. The contributors gathered in this special issue-several of whom participated in the translation of The Arcades Project-include leading scholars from modern culture and media studies, comparative literature and literary studies, art history, philosophy, cultural studies, and film studies.

Contributors. T. J. Clark, Howard Eiland, Peter Fenves, Tom Gunning, Michael Jennings, Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Kevin McLaughlin, Philip Rosen, Henry Sussman, Lindsay Waters, Samuel Weber, Peter Wollen

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.