The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin

The Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin with Howard Eiland (Translator), Kevin McLaughlin (Translator)

1088 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging slow-paced

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"To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Pro...

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