The Arcades Project by Benjamin Walter (64 results)

Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Massachusetts. 2003. Fourth printing. Paperback. Large thick, heavy 8vo. Covers rubbed and slightly curled at corners. Contents clean.

Gr.-8°, broschiert. Condition: Gut. 1. Taschenbuchauflage. 1073 Seiten, Einband leicht berieben, Einbandecken gestaucht, sonst gutes Exemplar. A25537 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1500.

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xiv + 1073pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light to moderate soiling to page edges).

Paperback. Condition: Good +. 1073 pp ex library with markings.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First complete English language translation of the German-Jewish thinker's unfinished magnum opus, an attempt to strip away, through a unique palimpsest of quotations, the bourgeois ideology masking nineteenth-century history. Large octavo (7 x 10.25 in.); 1073pp., with index; blue pictorial boards backed with black cloth, metallic blue lettering on spine; in dust jacket. Former owner's signature on title page. Else fine in a fine jacket with a short closed tear at the edge of the front panel cut-out.

Second printing. xiv + 1073 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original German by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. An unfinished magnum opus of 20th-century critical theory, The Arcades Project is Walter Benjamin's sprawling philosophical excavation of 19th-century Paris as the birthplace of modern consumer culture. Composed as a constellation of fragments, quotations, and reflections, the work defies traditional narrative form, instead constructing a "literary montage" on themes of capitalism, spectacle, urban experience, and historical memory. A foundational text for cultural studies, media theory, and modernist criticism. Owner's inscription, else fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Near Fine copy in publishers decorated boards in like very slightly creased dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st edition of monumental influential title and scarce. 1073pp. Illustrated throughout. ISBN 067404326X.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First. Translatied by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaugjhlin. 1073p. cloth, d.w. Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press, 1999. Unfinished last work, prepared on the basis of the German volume edited by Rolv Tiedmann.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket but for short tear and tiny chip to finish at upper right corner of rear panel. "With a greater concreteness than had ever been achieved in historicall narrative, Benjamin's text immerses the reader in the milieu of the Paris arcades--those precursors of today's shopping malls--during the period 1830-1870--when the modern industrial world was taking shape. Like the arcades themselves, Benjamin's masterwork is a vast montage in which he quotes and reflects on hundreds of topics."; Large 8vo; 1072 pp.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 1088 Size: Paperback.

First edition in English. Large 8vo. xiv, 1073, [1] pp., black and white photographic illustrations. Original quarter black cloth with blue pictorial paper covered boards, spine lettered in blue, dust jacket (contents clean and unmarked; minor shelf wear to extremities of jacket, some scuffing and surface wear to rear panel, notwithstanding a really excellent example of this large and unwieldy publication). Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harvard University Press. The first English translation of Walter Benjamin's tragically incomplete yet enduringly influential work of social and cultural theory. Entrusted to his friend Georges Bataille shortly before Benjamin's suicide as the Nazis advanced upon Catalonia, The Arcades Project existed as an enormous, brilliantly disparate array of writings, notes, cuttings and quotations that Benjamin had assembled over the previous decade, largely concerned with city life in nineteenth century France and especially with the iron-and-glass 'arcades' of Hausman's Paris. Seeing in them a 'dialectical image' within which the currents of modern life were embedded, Benjamin organised his work into a series of 36 'convolutes', folders with organisational labels such as 'Fashion', 'Baudelaire', and 'Modes of Lighting'. The present English translation was a landmark: there is almost no other work comparable in the philosophical canon to its sheer scale of semi-organised fragmentation.