Walter Benjamin's Passages

Pierre Missac ; translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen

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Author(s)

Pierre Missac

Publication, year

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 1995 (first published in France in 1987)

Scope

233 Pages, 24 cm.

ISBN

0262133059

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This book substitutes an absent monument for Walter Benjamin, honoring the writer's achievement. It shows how Benjamin's writings anticipated the future and how - as Missac's excursus on the glass atrium in the architecture of the 1980s shows - it can be fruitfully extended

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Person as subject

Walter Benjamin

Keywords

architectuur / architecture , stedelijk leven / urban life , sociologie / sociology , openbare ruimte / public space , stad / city , filosofie / philosophy

Location

Cabinet 11C - 1: Filosofie ; Sociologie ; Maatschappij ; Politiek / Philosophy ; Sociology ; Society ; Politics

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, City and residents

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.