The Dialectics of Seeing

July 1991
6 x 9, 508 pp., 147 illus.
$40.00/£29.95 (PAPER)
Short

ISBN-10:
0-262-52164-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-52164-2

Cloth (1989)

Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought

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The Dialectics of Seeing
Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
Susan Buck-Morss

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

About the Author

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.

"Wonderfully imaginative.... Like Benjamin, Buck-Morss is a surrealist explorer, her mysteries unraveled by intuition, revealed by illusion."
—Eugen Weber, The New Republic

"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."
—Herbert Muschamp, Artforum

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