The Dialectics of Seeing
Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 July 1991
Summary
Walter Benjamin’s magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form. Working with Benjamin’s vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, Buck-Morss makes visible the conceptual structure that gives these fragments philosophical coherence. She uses images throughout the bo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262521642 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262521644 |
| Author: | Susan Buck-Morss |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 July 1991 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought |
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Wonderfully imaginative…Like Benjamin, Buck-Morss is a surrealist explorer, her mysteries unraveled by intuition, revealed by illusion.
Buck-Morss has written a wonderful book. Although rigorously analytic, the book doesn’t sacrifice those qualities in Benjamin’s writing that are not reducible to method. His lyrical, hallucinatory evocation of the city as a place of dreams, myths, expectations.
—Herbert Muschamp, ArtforumWonderfully imaginative…Like Benjamin, Buck-Morss is a surrealist explorer, her mysteries unraveled by intuition, revealed by illusion.
—Eugen Weber, The New RepublicAbout The Author
Susan Buck-Morss
Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory, Department of Government, and Professor of Visual Culture, Department of Art History, Cornell University.
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