Article: Benjamin's 'Arcades': An UnGuided Tour.(Book review)

Benjamin's 'Arcades': An UnGuided Tour. By PETER BUSE, KEN HIRSCHKOP, SCOTT MCCRACKEN, and BERTRAND TAITHE. (Encounters) Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2005. xii+205 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7190-6989-5.

Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, a bundle of notes on nineteenth-century Parisian culture, has long been understood as a bewitching study of an architectural form and a bewildering formal architecture for study. The book in its first incarnation in German and French, as in the recent English translation, appears as a voluminous, multi-faceted structure, which leaves its readers disoriented, without footholds. How can a collation of ...

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