Benjamin's Arcades: An Unguided Tour

The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. This book looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits. Written by three literary scholars and one historian, this text is both a reading companion and a vigorous interpretation of one of the most important humanistic texts of the twentieth century.

Peter Buse is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at The University of Salford. Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at The University of Manchester. Scott McCracken is Professor of English at Keele University. Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at The University of Manchester.