The Arcades Project
by Walter Benjamin
Buy on AmazonDas Passagen-Werk or Arcades Project was an unfinished project of German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin, written between 1927 and his death in 1940. An enormous collection of writings on the city life of Paris in the 19th century, it was especially concerned with Paris's iron-and-glass covered "arcades".
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"A marvelous and unfinished book that you can read in a nonlinear way — start in the middle, go backward, draw circles. There is nothing like reading Walter Benjamin before going to sleep. You will have the most vivid dreams."
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