Benjamin Now: Critical Encounters with "The Arcades Project" (Boundary)

Kevin McLaughlin, Philip Rosen (Editors)

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2003

Beschreibung

A special issue of Boundary 2, An International Journal of Literature and Culture. Volume 30, Number 1, Spring 2003. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows very light shelfwear. Very small black mark is visible to bottom edge of text block. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 219 pages. ""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.".

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Benjamin Now: Critical Encounters with "The Arcades Project" (Boundary)
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine