This is a picture book of philosophy, explicating the dialectics of seeing developed by Walter Benjamin, who took seriously the debris of mass culture as the source of philosophical truth. Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen-Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form.
Part of the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.
Onsite
English
sociology,  visual studies
1991
493
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monograph
Afterimages
Part I
Introduction
1. Temporal Origins
2. Spatial Origins
Part II
Introduction
3. Natural History: Fossil
4. Mythic History: Fetish
5. Mythic History: Wish Image
6. Historical Nature: Ruin
Part III
Introduction
7. Is This Philosophy?
8. Dream World of Mass Culture
9. Materialist Pedagogy
Afterword: Revolutionary Inheritance
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