Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” is an undergraduate art-history staple, but true Benjaminiacs consider his massive, unfinished “Arcades Project” to be ...

He named it Arcades Project after German author Walter Benjamin’s collection of unfinished essays by the same title. The author used literary collage techniques to chronicle Paris city living ...

bringing a fully representative set of texts by German critic Benjamin (1892–1940) into English; volume 4 joins the first three installments along with The Arcades Project, Theodor Wiesengrund ...

However, faced with imminent deportation to a concentration camp, on September 27, 1940, Benjamin overdosed on morphine. His posthumously published magnum opus “The Arcades Project” serves as ...

Between 1927 and 1940, when Benjamin wrote the fragments that would later become The Arcades Project, he envisaged how, during the late 19th century, European ideas relating to technology and ...

and the work of Walter Benjamin, a cultural critic and philosopher who died in the opening days of World War II, having spent over a decade and a half on his magnum opus, “The Arcades Project ...

The tragedy book lacks any real unity, and the same is true of Benjamin’s other works. One-Way Street is loose in structure, while The Arcades Project, Benjamin’s great study of 19th-century Paris, is ...