Une collecte d'images. Walter Benjamin à la Bibliothèque nationale

Discover the book Une collecte d'images. Walter Benjamin à la Bibliothèque nationale by Steffen Haug, published on June 9, 2022 in the "Passage" collection of the Éditions de la MSH.

Between 1927 and 1930 in Berlin, then from 1934 to 1940 in Paris, Walter Benjamin worked to accumulate material for a vast project: to retrace, from the study of Parisian passages, a "prehistory of the 19th century". The writing of the text is constantly postponed, while the immense preparatory corpus seems destined to grow indefinitely, becoming a composite sum of quotations that sometimes doubles as a reflection or an enigmatic remark.

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