Benjamin's Arcades: An Unguided Tour

by Peter Buse, Scott McCracken, Bertrand Taithe, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719069890
• ISBN13: 9780719069895
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"