![]() ![]() His topics range from the traditional literary critical heights of German allegory to the phenomena of everyday life such as childhood memories, city streets, wax museums, fashion, and films. But his significance extends well beyond his status as the black sheep of the Frankfurt School family. Others have already laid out the terms by which Benjamin’s ideas do or do not conform to the Weimar Marxists and their pre-war and then postwar notions of social theory and the culture of capitalism. No doubt, part of the interest in Benjamin has always resided in his status as the most tragic member of a group of German intellectuals who eventually became known as the Frankfurt School. In addition, it asks whether the translation of the incomplete text called The Arcades Project will change Benjamin’s import for historians. This essay considers the insights Benjamin’s Parisian production cycle generates for the field of history. It is a body of work that has earned him his reputation in a variety of scholarly disciplines: philosophy, comparative literature, film studies, art history, urban studies, and finally history. The Arcades Project needs to be understood in the context of what Benjamin called his “Parisian production cycle”-his work from One-Way Street written in 1927 to his “Theses on the Philosophy of History” in 1940. ![]() The English translation of The Arcades Project offers an occasion to reconsider the set of insights and organized chaos that lay at the center of Walter Benjamin’s work. Popular critical opinion about it has ranged from architectural critic Herbert Muschamp’s delight in what he dubbed a “towering literary event” to Mark Kingwell’s trace of contempt for “an intellectual folly, a massive and spectacular ruin.” Part encyclopedia of the nineteenth century, part model of a philosophy of history for the twentieth century, its more than 1,000 pages help to qualify the Harvard University Press edition as a major event in scholarship. ![]() The latest stir around Benjamin arrives with the recent publication of the long-awaited translation from German and French of his unfinished magnum opus, which he described as “the theater of all my struggles and all my ideas,” known in English as The Arcades Project. If Michel Foucault seemed to emerge as the philosopher for historians in the 1980s, Walter Benjamin’s ascent in American history happened sometime in the 1990s and is not yet over. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (N 1, 8), 458.Ĭertain intellectual figures inform and even set the theoretical parameters of historical and historiographical discourse at particular moments. OL13315890W Page_number_confidence 95.82 Pages 292 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220217161710 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 897 Scandate 20220202085918 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0805202412 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 4.Pedagogic side of this undertaking: “To educate the image-making medium within us, raising it to a stereoscopic and dimensional seeing into the depths of historical shadows.” The words are from Rudolf Borchardt’s Epilegomena zu Dante, v. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:30:11 Associated-names Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40605502 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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