Benjamin's Arcades

An Unguided Tour

Professor Peter Buse, Ken Hirschkop, Scott McCracken , Bertrand Taithe

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English

Manchester Univ. Press
02 May 2006

European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Philosophy; History of ideas

Series: Encounters: Cultural Histories

The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin's Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits. Written by three literary scholars and one historian, this text is both a reading companion and a vigorous interpretation of one of the most important humanistic texts of the twentieth century.

Benjamin's Arcades is composed of 16 entries and a specially designed 'convoluted' index. Some of the entries confront Benjamin with a different reading of his own historical sources (Blanqui, Marx, Giedion), others look intensively at key themes, obsessions, and images (the gambler, commodity fetishism, the Angel of History, magic). Throughout there is discussion of the relationship of Benjamin's work to current and past debate on topics such as modernity, Judaism, fascism, and psychoanalysis. Benjamin's Arcades opens up Benjamin's texts to a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and will be an essential text for those seeking to better understand this extraordinary work. -- .

By: Professor Peter Buse, Ken Hirschkop, Scott McCracken, Bertrand Taithe
Series edited by: Roger Cooter
Imprint: Manchester Univ. Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 263g
ISBN: 9780719069895
ISBN 10: 0719069890
Series: Encounters: Cultural Histories
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 May 2006
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Buse is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at The University of Salford. Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at The University of Manchester. Scott McCracken is Professor of English at Keele University. Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester