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Walter Benjamin

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Benjumin's Paris Arcades

Mclaughlan: Ben minsar saw the arcades as interiorizing the remains of an antiquated city that was fading away. He became interested in these architectural structures in 19 27, when he read a louis aragon's novel,. The paris sant which had just been published the year before. And the setting of aragon’s novel is an arcade, specifically the passage de lapera a, an arcade that was about to be demolished to make way for the boulevard osmana.

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