The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

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Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. "In The Dialectics of Seeing", Susan Buck_Morss offers a reconstruction of the "Passagen- Werk", or "Arcades Project" as it might have taken form.

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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.

Wonderfully imaginative...Like Benjamin, Buck-Morss is a surrealist explorer, her mysteries unraveled by intuition, revealed by illusion.

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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.