ISBN: 0822365782 9780822365785

Category: Literary Criticism / General

Page count: 219

<i>The Arcades Project</i> is the unfinished, final work of influential cultural theorist, critic, and historian Walter Benjamin. Until 1999, this huge, unruly manuscript, which provides a more complete picture of the diversity of Benjamin's work than formerly available, had not been fully translated into English. <i>Benjamin Now</i> is the first collection of essays in English to focus on <i>The Arcades Project</i>. <p>While this essential text's title refers to its ostensible subject--the nineteenth-century shopping arcades of Paris--<i>The Arcades Project</i> is a mass of cultural, political, and social material presented in the form of a vast montage. <i>Benjamin Now</i> reconsiders the significance of his theories and writings in light of this final project. The contributors gathered in this special issue--several of whom participated in the translation of <i>The Arcades Project</i>--include leading scholars from modern culture and media studies, comparative literature and literary studies, art history, philosophy, cultural studies, and film studies.</p> <p><i>Contributors</i>. T. J. Clark, Howard Eiland, Peter Fenves, Tom Gunning, Michael Jennings, Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Kevin McLaughlin, Philip Rosen, Henry Sussman, Lindsay Waters, Samuel Weber, Peter Wollen<br></p>