The Arcades Project
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The Arcades Project is Walter Benjamin’s unfinished, posthumously published magnum opus that assembles notes and reflections on 19th-century Parisian arcades to explore modernity, capitalism, and urban life.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Arcades Project canonical | 3 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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literary work ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ unfinished work ⓘ |
| author | Walter Benjamin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| describedAs | Walter Benjamin's magnum opus ⓘ |
| editorOfGermanEdition | Rolf Tiedemann ⓘ |
| EnglishTranslationPublicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| genre |
critical theory
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cultural criticism ⓘ literary theory ⓘ philosophy of history ⓘ urban studies ⓘ |
| influenced |
cultural studies
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literary criticism ⓘ media theory ⓘ urban theory ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
19th-century Paris
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Parisian arcades ⓘ architecture ⓘ bourgeois culture ⓘ capitalism ⓘ commodity fetishism ⓘ flâneur ⓘ history ⓘ mass culture ⓘ modernity ⓘ technology ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
allegory
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dialectical image ⓘ dreamworlds of capitalism ⓘ phantasmagoria ⓘ ruins of history ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Das Passagen-Werk ⓘ |
| posthumousPublicationYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| publisherOfEnglishEdition | Harvard University Press ⓘ |
| setting | Paris ⓘ |
| structure |
collection of notes
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collection of quotations ⓘ thematic convolutes ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | 19th century ⓘ |
| translatorToEnglish |
Howard Eiland
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Kevin McLaughlin ⓘ |
| workOnItBegan | 1927 ⓘ |
| workOnItEnded | 1940 ⓘ |
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