The Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin

Edited by Roy Tiedemann Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin

    Translators' Foreword

    Exposés

    "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1935)

    "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" (1939)

    Convolutes

    Overview

    First Sketches

    Early Drafts

    "Arcades"

    "The Arcades of Paris"

    "The Ring of Saturn"

    Addenda

    Exposé of 1935, Early Version

    Materials for the Exposé of 1935

    Materials for "Arcades"

    "Dialectics at a Standstill," by Rolf Tiedemann

    "The Story of Old Benjamin," by Lisa Fittko

    Translators' Notes

    Guide to Names and Terms

    Index

  • Cover: The Arcades Project
  • A photo of the author

photo: Walter Benjamin, 1929. photo by Charlotte Joël. Courtesy Theodor W. Adorno Archiv, Frankfurt, Germany

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis.

Howard Eiland is Lecturer in Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kevin McLaughlin is Assistant Professor of English at Brown University and the author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature.