Awakening from the 20th Century

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.
All the Passagen Werk references on this site are from this book, which its author describes as "a picture book of philosphy, explicating the dialectics of seeing developed by Walter Benjamin. who took seriously the debris of mass culture as the source of philosophical truth."

1989 THE MIT PRESS
Cambridge, MA 02142