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.Working with Benjamin's vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, Buck-Morss makes visible the conceptual structure that gives these fragments philosophical coherence. She uses images throughout the book to demonstrate that Benjamin took the debris of mass culture seriously as the source of philosophical truth.The Paris Arcades that so fascinated Benjamin (as they did the Surrealists whose "materialist metaphysics" he admired) were the prototype, the 19th century "ur-form" of the modern shopping mall. Benjamin's dialectics of seeing demonstrate how to read these consumer dream houses and so many other material objects of the time - from air balloons to women's fashions, from Baudelaire's poetry to Grandville's cartoons - as anticipations of social utopia and, simultaneously, as clues for a radical political critique.Buck-Morss plots Benjamin's intellectual orientation on axes running east and west, north and south - Moscow Paris, Berlin-Naples - and shows how such thinking in coordinates can explain his understanding of "dialectics at a standstill. " She argues for the continuing relevance of Benjamin's insights but then allows a set of "afterimages" to have the last word.Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory at Cornell University. The Dialectics of Seeing is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.
1 有用 rachel 2016-05-17 14:17:25
从此跟着奇葩走上了神叨拧巴的不归路。。
0 有用 Agere 2009-01-18 13:02:24
大部头 八十年代论述本雅明的经典之作,将本雅明读成马克思主义战士 材料很充实,那个时侯巴克莫斯还是挺有战斗力,挺能写的。
0 有用 Summseer 2015-03-18 02:16:43
Benjamin发烧友必读
0 有用 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒌𝒆𝒊𝒕 2023-06-27 13:10:43 江苏
本雅明《拱廊计划》研究必读
0 有用 禾勿甫 2023-08-03 00:21:51 北京
还挺深入浅出的,and manages to reconstruct the possible frame of the proposed book according to almost every aspects of all 1000+ pages of notes. 遗憾的是即便如此还是很难看清本雅明的arcade project最终究竟指向哪里,不过也正因为这样,这厚厚一本的notes才... 还挺深入浅出的,and manages to reconstruct the possible frame of the proposed book according to almost every aspects of all 1000+ pages of notes. 遗憾的是即便如此还是很难看清本雅明的arcade project最终究竟指向哪里,不过也正因为这样,这厚厚一本的notes才会有无限生命力吧 (展开)
0 有用 Forseti 2023-08-08 16:44:35 北京
极其精彩的二手文献
0 有用 禾勿甫 2023-08-03 00:21:51 北京
还挺深入浅出的,and manages to reconstruct the possible frame of the proposed book according to almost every aspects of all 1000+ pages of notes. 遗憾的是即便如此还是很难看清本雅明的arcade project最终究竟指向哪里,不过也正因为这样,这厚厚一本的notes才... 还挺深入浅出的,and manages to reconstruct the possible frame of the proposed book according to almost every aspects of all 1000+ pages of notes. 遗憾的是即便如此还是很难看清本雅明的arcade project最终究竟指向哪里,不过也正因为这样,这厚厚一本的notes才会有无限生命力吧 (展开)
0 有用 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒌𝒆𝒊𝒕 2023-06-27 13:10:43 江苏
本雅明《拱廊计划》研究必读
0 有用 Nomis 2023-01-31 08:46:55 美国
两个月断断续续终于读完了; a dream-like journey through the arcades
0 有用 花梦竹 2021-06-08 03:11:27
开篇第一段Ursprung的翻译太业余了,导致后面一直无法对她的引用产生信心,可是benjamin一千多页的文本又不能每段都核对一遍,不过她的诠释,illustration and afterimages都好有趣