Paris. Capital of the 19th century.

Author: (German) Walter Benjamin
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book is a collection of completed drafts from Walter Benjamin's "Arcades Project." Inspired by the novel Les Arcades by Paul Aragon, the renowned German thinker and literary theorist decided to explore the alienated landscape of Parisian arcades through his research, showcasing the spectacle of "capital culture" in the 19th century. In these completed drafts, he interprets Baudelaire's poetry with his unique narrative style while keenly observing the new transformations arcades brought to human social life in space. Through this book, you can understand the struggle of humans against their own alienation in the process of 19th-century capitalist development.