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29. Ibid., pp. 45-46. "Drifting" is translated in Belamin's text asjlaner. 30. Ibid., p. 46. 31. Ibid., pp. 178-179 (citing letter of August 30, 1846, to John Forster). 32. Siegfried Kracauer, O,pheus in Paris: Offe nbach and the Pans qf His Time) trans . Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher (New York: Knopf, 1938), p. 213 (describing an operetta by Offenbach) . 33. Ibid., pp. 75, 76-77. For the remark by Alfred de Musset, see "Le Boulevard de Gand," in Musset, Oeuvres compldes (paris: Seuil, 1964), p. 896. [J.L.] 34. Kracauer, OrjJheus in Paris, p. 79 (second sentence added) . 35. Paul Vc'1lery, "The Place of Baudelaire," in Leonardo, Poe, Nlallarme, trans. Malcolm Cowley and James R. Lawler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972), p. 203. 36. C. G.Jung, Collected Works, vol. 10, trans. R. F. C. Hull (princeton: Princeton Univer sity Press, 1978), p. 48. 37. This passage does not appear in the anonymous English translation: Eugene Sue, The MystelieJ ofPailJ (Sawtty, Cambridgeshire: Dedalus, [1989?]). 38. In Balzac, Splendeurs et mlSereS des courtisanes) part 2, in Oeuvres completes) vol. 15 (Paris, 1913), pp. 310ff. [RoT] In English, A Harlot High and Low, trans. Rayner Heppenstall (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), p. 270. 39. Baudelaire as a Literary Critic) trans. Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop, Jr. (University Park: PeIll1sylvania State University Press, 1964), pp. 338-339. 40. Ibid., p. 294. 41. Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare " and Other Pmfe Writings) trans. Norman Cameron (1950: rpt. New Yo rk: Haskell House, 1975), p. 169 ("Fusees," no. 21). See M15a,3. 42. Baudelaire, "The Painter 0/ Modern Lift" and Other Essays) trans. Jonathan Mayne (1964; rpt. New York: DaCapo, 1986), p. 9. 43. Jules Romains, Men of Good Will, vol. 1, trans. Warre B. Wells (New Yo rk: Knopf, 1946), p. 157. 44. Ibid., p. 136 ("A Little Boy's LongJoumey"). 45. Ibid., pp. 399-400. 46. Hugo, Les Miserables, p. 884 ("Enchantments and Desolations;' section 5). For the passage in Gerstacker, see 1,4a,l, and R2,2. 47. Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare,"p. 188. 48. Baudelaire, Selected Letten, trans. Rosemary Lloyd (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), pp. 59-60. 49. Poe, ComjJlete Ta./es and Poems (New York: Modem Library, 1938), p. 476 ("The Man of the Crowd"). 50. Baudelaire, "M)' liea!"t Laid Bare/'p. 169. 51. Balzac, Gaudissart the Great} trans. James vVaring (philadelphia: Gebbie, 1899), p. 346. 52. Baudelaire, Th e Comj)/ete Verse, trans. Francis Scarfe (London: Anvil, 1986), p. 377. 53. Bertolt Brecht, PoemJ} 1913-1956) trans. Ralph Manheim et al. (New Yo rk: Methuen, 1987), p. 131 ("A Reader for 11lOse Who Live in Cities"). 54. Marx, CajJitai, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New York: Intemational Publishers, 1967), p. 181. 55. See M8a,1. On the "physiologies,' a paperbound documentary literature popular in Paris during the 1840s, see Benjamin, C!wrleJ Baudelaire: A L)wic Poet in the Era 0/ HIgh Ca/}italisrn, trans. Harry 201m (London: Verso, 1973), pp. 35-36. See also J82a,3. 56. Georg Sinunel, Th e Philosoj)!!)' 0/ Malle») 2nd ed., trans. Tbm Bottomore and David
Frisby (London: Routledge, 1990), p. 477. The last phrase can be rendered more literally as "the all too pressing nearness." 57. "Voila ce qui fait de Pobservation artistique une chose bien differente de l'observation scientifique: elIe clait surtout etre instinctive et proceder par l'imaginatioll, d'abord;' Gustave F1aubert, COlTfspondance (paris: Conard, 1926-1954) vol. 4, p. 230 (letter of June 6-7, 1853, to Louise Colet). 58. rhe Letters '!fGustave Flaubert, 1830-1857, trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980), p. 203 Oetter of December 23, 1853, to Louise Colet; see Madame Bovary part 2, chap. 9). 59. ne Leiters '!fGustave Flaubert, 1857-1880, trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 89 (September 29, 1866, to George Sand). 60. Shelley, Poetical Works, ed. Thomas Hutchinson and G. M. Matthews (1905; rpt. London: Oxford University Press, 1970), pp. 350-351. Benjamin cites a translation by Brecht, from the latter's manuscript. 61. The Collected TaleJ and Plays qf Nikolai Gogol) trans. Constance Garnett, rev. Leonard J. Kent (New Yo rk: Pantlleon, 1964), p. 78. See E. T. A. Hoffmann, "My Cousin's COlner Wm dow," in "The Golden Pot" and Other Tales) trans. Ritchie Robertson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 379-380. 62. Hoffmann, "ne Golden Pot,"pp. 399-400. 63. Ibid., p. 380. 64. Hegel: The Letters, trans. Clark Butler ,md Christiane Seiler (Bloomington: hldiana University Press, 1984), p. 650. 65. Allusion to Vr rgil's Aeneid, book 6, lines 296ff.: "Here starts the pathway to the waters of / Tartarean Acheron. A whirlpool thick / with sludge, its giant eddy seeth ing, vomits / all of its swirling sand into Cocytus;' Trans. Allen Mandelbaum (New Yo rk: Bantam, 1971), p. 142. 66. Baudelaire, rhe Mirror '!f Art, trans. Jonathan Mayne (London: Phaidon, 1955), p. 283 ("The Salon of 1859," section 8). 67. JeanJacques Rousseau, Reveries qf the Solitary WalkeJ trans. Peter France (New York: Penguin, 1979), p. 35. 68. Valery, Poems in the Rough, trans. Hilary Corke (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), p. 155. 69. Balzac, Th e Wild ASJ's Skin, tran5. Herbert]. Hunt (London: Penguin, 1977), p. 108. 70. Proust, Remembrance if Things Past, vol. I, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (New York: Random House, 1925), p. 596 (Within a Budding Grove). 71. Proust, Remembrance qf ThingJ Past, vol. 2 (New York: Random House, 1932), p. 1084 (The Past Recaptured, trans. FrederickA. Blossom) . N [On the The ory of Knowledge, The ory of Progress] In translating Convolute N, we have greatly benefited from the previous translation of this convolute, "Re the The ory of Knowledge, The ory of Progress;' by Leigh Hafrey and Richard Sieburth, originally published in Philosophical Forum (Fall-Wmter, 1983-1984), and reprinted in Benjamin: Philosoph)" J-listor)" AestheticJ, ed. Gary Smith (Chicago: Uni versity of Chicago Press, 1989), pp. 38-83. 1. Karl Marx, Selected Wi1tingJ, ed. David McLellan (New Yo rk: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 38.
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THE ARCADES PROJECT
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CONTENTS T"anslators' Foreword Expo
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A A page of Benjamin's manuscript m
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Saturnring oder Etwas vom Eisenbau"
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The The German German edition of th
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trace in a thousand configurations
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III. Grandville, or the World Exhih
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impinge impinge on on social social
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Paris, Capital of the the Nineteent
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Pericles could ah-eady have underta
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D. D. Baudelaire, or the Streets of
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witnesses its birth. Here we meet t
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plantation owner among his slaves:'
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Overview A Arcades, Magasins de Nou
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The Passage des Panoramas. Watercol
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eaders will be be disturbed by this
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For the first time in history, with
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A branch of La BelleJardiniere in M
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Au Bon Marche department store in P
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B B [Fashion] Fashion: Madam Death!
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Le Pont des planetes (Interplanetar
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case, the woman would have been the
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Sudden past of a city: windows lit
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two lines by Baudelaire could serve
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this idea; for how can we be sure t
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"Eternal return" is the fimdamental
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trated the spirit of the times as a
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This This malicious statement state
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To Tools ols used by HaUSSlllaIm'S
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pas (Paris, 1857), pp. 47-49. These
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Critique sociale, vol. 1, Capital e
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F F [Iron [Iron Construction] Const
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Railroad stations used to be known
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possibilities. H A. G. Meyer Eisen
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Interior of the Crystal Palace, Lon
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marmer .... Each of the twelve thou
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like the tops of Boucher s gates."
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arts-a view which is, unhappily, de
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two words can meet" (p. 25; it rema
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Le 1iiomphe du kaleidoscope, ou Le
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G [Exhibitions, Advertising, Grandv
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course, in the end, the law accordi
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goods? The answer is very simple an
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ments, marble statues, and bubbling
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without the slightest detriment."
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""Despite all the posturing with wh
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Connection of the first world exhib
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Exterior of the Crystal Palace, Lon
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y t.he government against the Inter
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clipped, grain threshed, coal extra
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1851. These precautions included co
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infancy, the Cyclopean period . ...
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its first ordeal." A. Toussenel, L
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queer thing, abounding in metaphysi
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a contest of pastry cooks. The 600,
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"avenue" illuminated at night by ga
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D [The Collector] All these old thi
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at hand through its integration int
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nate for the previous century has c
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of the Holy Sacrament and The Schoo
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forms of argumentation to which the
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How the interior defended itself ag
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Under the bourgeoisie, cities as we
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ooms in coffeehouses. Each coffeeho
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""The drawing rooms of the Second E
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invent some sort of casing for! Poc
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ersP' Victor Fournel, Ce qu'on voit
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you are. The durability of products
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entiation. Changes in fashion disru
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Charles Baudelaire, 1855. Photo by
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Baudelaire-after his enforced sea v
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executed thus: the plate is set upr
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The title originally planned for Sp
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"Madame Bovary, in what is most for
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drawings, in distilling the bitter
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of the delivery was truly striking.
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lllire. -'Bnt your name is BlIudel
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heaven;' Baudelaire, OeuvreJ, vo!'
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"He is always polite to what is ugl
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horrible funk" writes the latter Ba
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makers as they are useless for form
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Thibaudet juxtaposes Baudelaire's '
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eing studiously contemplated, the e
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slowness from its long virtuality:
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of pure imagination, lose the use o
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I ... atin and Greek-in which I did
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Leconte de Lisle s opinion that Ba
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Dne Madone is a Baroque statue in
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The hidden figure that is the key t
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Apropos of "The greathearted servan
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Explore the question whether a conn
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fluttered like the sleeves of a cle
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v . 1 .. The definitive title for t
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Bourdin: son-in-law of Villemessant
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According to Le Dantec, the second
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concentration has caused him to red
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am convinced that, if the syllables
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The following passage shows the cro
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nard." Edmond J aloux, Le Centenair
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past, to think of things which are
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In his commemorative address, Banvi
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suddenly reopened it under the lamp
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Note the rigor and elegance of the
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o o eo The importance of theory for
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Underneath that dark and fatal claw
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only if one took out a subscription
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""Baudelaire does not give us a lif
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00 o '" ""He was the first . .. to
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women give suck . .. , in their psy
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more deplorable than to be utterly
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and back." Ch. B., Oeuvres complete
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"Stupidity is often the ornament of
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The figure of the lesbian woman bel
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Sainte-Beuve with the words : "They
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v . 1 .. The unique importance of B
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.§ ) ... The mental capacities tha
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The image of petrified unrest, iu t
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On allegory: "L'Amour et Ie crane:
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the public . .. the mechanism behin
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to mention the transfiguration of P
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work of Poe, who thus became irrepl
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Les Fleun du mal may be considered
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forms an obstacle in its path. His
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This image has contributed greatly
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p. 133 ("Equilibrium between the Ae
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judging solely by the lights of a r
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his nonconformity, was in this resp
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The experience of allegory, which h
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o en M haschisch;' Oeuvres, vol. 1,
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no words could convey to the merely
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"On solemn eves of Heavenly harvest
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without jealousy, sympathetic and r
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tionary communists-from the public
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Closing lines of "Le Vin des chiffo
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a thousand splendors, / Is a sumptu
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For the materialist dialectician, d
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understanding its Baroque form. He
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I.I.While the parliamentary party o
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deed of nihilism, which is suicide"
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Modernity, in this work, is what a
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v . ] .. Allegory, as the sign that
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Among the legends which circulated
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No more hees sipping dewdrop and th
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o CO CD "BauclelaiI'c's weighty phr
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existence, to an attitude of patien
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first, vegetable kingdom next, mine
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America. Near the Capitol the roofs
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K [Dream City and Dream House, Drea
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configuration, they are as much nat
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than the nowbeing of "the present t
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More than a hundred years before it
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to disallow the pretentions of abst
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isolation . . . . The temple ought
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"There can be no doubt that from ..
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Couldn't one compare the social dif
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discover there, where our muscles d
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today, in the age of the automobile
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they also arranged to have outstand
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the next in perspective, offering f
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that sheet of' alluvium, subterrane
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son of the princess. The intimacy o
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M [The FHtueur] A landscape haunts,
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pletely distances himself from the
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on as we would imagine them to do i
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"It is wonderful that in Paris itse
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anonymous engineering, a grade cros
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then ... there was scarcely a tavem
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pavement, so as not to delay the op
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knowing it; yet notlllng is more fo
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was a poor devil whose means forbad
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nomy. The difference between this p
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torrent where you are rolled, buffe
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door is closed. 'Dickens himself ha
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Frontispiece of the third volume of
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""That poetry of terror which the s
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In Le 6 o(/obn, in Chapter 17, "Le
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Description of the crowd in Baudela
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ary urban culture ... forces us to
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v Which last is a scheme of ' paper
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ahout the same faces, the same appe
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who, in the midst of his wanderings
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[On the Theory of .Knowledge, Theor
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down from the arcades in the readin
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Marx lays bare the causal connectio
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condition of technology. The old pr
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identical with the "now of recogniz
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The particular difficulty of doing
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these values originated, but of the
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fonns of appropriate behavior. What
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of the artist reaches back to the p
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The dialectical image is that form
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The archaic form of primal history,
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late, and politics always needs to
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tdalterliche Zeitanschauungen in il
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accentuate the rags of mendicants .
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tive . . , content hy the historica
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The now of recognizability is the m
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Focillon on technique: "It has been
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fills all wanton behavior with fate
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"Hirondelles-women who work the win
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of this decline fuses, as though of
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tated, provoked above all by the lo
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that only the superior strength of
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o o "' this woman from passing beyo
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8 '" oneself that the woman who at
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could withstand the exorbitant comm
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Should the flower fashions of the B
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00 o "' "'After the Cafe de Paris c
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strain of knowing that her life is
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way, in that red cotton fabric that
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the Palais-Royal of 1789 . ... In s
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[The Streets of Paris] In short, th
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'Pont d'Austerlitz! Its famous name
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well as their population, and havin
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of the inhabitants." J. B. Pujoulx,
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the bit of blue which the northern
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The importance accorded the traffic
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the coarse moustaches of these infe
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sentation of certain still-life obj
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Principal panoramic representations
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Diorama on the Rue de Bondy, 1837.
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The world exhibition of 1889 had a
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merged with tlus, his image. Even t
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figures . ... Before every door sto
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A look at the ambiguity of the arca
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inely unique-what will never recur.
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only holds good in the space of the
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of this Jugendstil than Barcelona,
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ing, frescoes, decorative tapestry,
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On the upside-down manor house: ""T
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ancient grandeur of painting to its
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This phony in sum knows how to mana
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The fundamental motif of Jug ends t
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In his "Salons;' Baudelaire has giv
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T [Modes of Lighting] Et noctumis f
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D this kind of lighting, which was
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weekly, on Thursdays and Sundays, a
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the glass tubing, and so forth-were
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[;; to this general illumination, u
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"The influence and development of S
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process for producing gas lighting.
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had run aground on metaphysics.' H
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purpose of stock market quotations?
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o 00 "' people who no longer threat
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2,700,000 volumes were put into cir
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only the hanknotes of paradise, and
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'" 00 "' proclaimed itself the wond
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00 00 '" is called "Le Voyageur du
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""Let us put an end to honors for A
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Primate of the Gauls; there was the
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Le Globe (October 31, 1331), with r
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federation, when their hands are no
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00 '" "' women, were in no way the
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o o '0 French bourgeoisie gains too
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N '" co they arrived on the day bef
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mediating power, the good sense of
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guine in character anyway like all
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the uniform of Poly technicians, se
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. 1 CJ .. and simple, . .. who want
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Russia can huy the head of the Repu
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(May 1, 1937), pp. 695-696. The Jes
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the Provisional Goverrnnent to regi
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w [Fourier] Seas they fathom! Skies
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the heart, so as to bring the blood
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the sun and the harmonized planets.
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" Heine was well acquainted with so
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he saw it, took its rise from the i
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should govern him. Let us rescue it
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Fourier, Oeuvres, vol. , p. 260: "
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. can eventuate only in Harmony. Al
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since the invention of the chariot;
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those of Paris, who, as workers in
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and his soul fades into the planeta
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plants. m Armand and Maublanc, Four
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· . . on their clothing." ""Althou
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Fourier: 'Every calling has its cou
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Ten million francs would be needed
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quite eccentric in its outward aspe
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than consciousness of existing prac
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Time in technology: " As in a genui
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sanctioned by the so-called univers
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is what Marx is referring to when h
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time. They are nothing more than th
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show that the mythological mode of
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exchange. In fact, this 'equality'
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would he difficult to explain why,
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Korsch says very justly (and one mi
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ole of the immediate production of
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eform, working with only their one
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exposure time, I found it difficult
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Among the inventions that predate p
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like Paul Del.roche in his painting
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o 00
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NADAR_ ileValli la Photograpbie it
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not the process. Whoever possesses
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'" ro '" The first photographic int
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an image in the atmosphere, that al
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o m '" happy to have faithfully rep
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hasten to enrich the tourist's albu
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are bewitched, but the evil spell o
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which deals with the material-each
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a [Social Movement] Reveal to these
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o R breaking through walls. As soon
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f2 Episodes in the June Insurrectio
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f2 rigorously monitored the worker
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to him. m Eugene Buret, La Misere d
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ourgeoisie were already fearful of
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We arc nothing but machines. Our Ba
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incendiary deeds, spoke already of
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Chassin, La Legende du Petit Mantea
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I 1) o en Will Look out on an oce
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"'I will rouse the people with my u
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Jules Mercier "L'Arche de Dieu," in
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f! From Robert (du Var) l Ilistoire
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Adolphe Boyer, De l'Etat des ouvrie
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Ganneau's "Page prophetique ' was
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the author accentuates the "·pecul
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On Buret's De la Miser'e des classe
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g? Poetry . .. has sanctioned the g
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Cuvillier presents Proudhon as a pr
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the Sirens to he crew of his ship a
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symptoms of a disease that today in
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[Daumier] A paradoxical description
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Honore Daumier, ca. 1857. Photo by
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d [Literary History, Hugo] "'Thiel'
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exclusive glory of the triumphant B
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It is worthy of note that the prefa
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L'Artiste et I 'amateur du dix-neuv
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hounds and the faxes are yelping, d
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which were government bureaucrats.
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the Stock Exchange, diverted for te
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m [Idleness] Noteworthy conjunction
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a product of chance, and have about
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evinced in the theory of "modern be
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"" o 00 often, idleness is the very
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00 o 00 the redeemer of man ' 8 bet
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;:: threshold of the hedroom, a dev
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[Ecole Poly technique ] On commerce
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Poly technique. The student would d
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something very characteristic of th
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How Blucher gambled in Paris. (See
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slot machines, the mechanical fortu
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o '"' 00 of Schiller's we read of
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ance, we have to experience indire
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Thomasius, Vam Recht des Schlafi un
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Arcades This brief essay, dating fr
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superstition. Thus in gambler and p
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The Ring of Saturn or Some Remarks
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allow our steel furnishings of toda
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Walter BeIamin at the card catalogu
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Expose of 1935, Early Version The e
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The flaneur as counterpart of the "
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essence of the images which the dre
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Materials for the Expose of 1935 Th
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Gaslight in Baudelaire Passage de l
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The untranslatable literature of fl
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Dialectic of the commodity A canon
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teenth century, and in it a specifi
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the immersion of what has been into
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image. Physiognomic thought was ass
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two meanings in Belamin's texts; th
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clocks, as during the July revoluti
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continued, "told me how to find you
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Translators' Notes Abbreviations GS
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Expose of 1939 The second expose, "
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ing; Friederike Kempner (1836-1904)
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in GlO,l is on p. 239. Benjamin cit
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deavor to maintain a Juste milieu.)
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42. Baudelaire, "The Painter of Mod
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96. Baudelaire, The Complete verse)
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ice . ... [He] thinks he has been v
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287. Ibid. 288. Ibid., p. 230. "Ill
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tion between the jack of hearts and
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In English in The Complete Time, p.
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was a site in Paris occupied by wor
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Frederick A. Blossom) . The lines b
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different parts of the world. But t
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aid of two other young republicans.
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36. As a child, Fourier would fill
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"workshop" and "graverll or 'burin"
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(destroyed in 1919) took in a numbe
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trans. Manfred R. Jacobson and Evel
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Benjamids in more than mere nuances
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tion and was minister of war in the
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Belleville. Wo rking·class neighbo
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Buchez, Philippe (1796-1865). Frenc
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in French, no confessional, and mar
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Crepet,Jacques (1874-1952). Son of
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Du Camp, Maxime (1822-1894). Writer
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Flotte, Etienne-Gaston, baron de (1
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Grand Chatelet. Ancient fortress in
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laire and Rimbaud. Author of Umbra
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Hebrew at the College of Rome. In 1
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er of Deputies from 1841. A leader
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Makar!, Hans (1840-1884). Austrian
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Mode, comte Louis (1781-1855). Prem
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Nisard, Desire (1806-1888).journali
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La Plmlauge. Fourierist newspaper p
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Restif de la Bretonne. Pseudonym of
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Sarcey, Francisque (1827-1899). Fre
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Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856-191
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Villiers de l'Isle-Adarn, Auguste (
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Balzac, Honore de (colltinued) cult
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Baudelaire, Charles (wl1timwd) de 1
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Chatelain, U.-Y., 250 Chaudes-Aigue
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Pouson du Te rrail, Pierre-Alexis,
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Frisby (London: Routledge, 1990), p. 477. <strong>The</strong> last phrase can be rendered more<br />
literally as "the all too pressing nearness."<br />
57. "Voila ce qui fait de Pobservation artistique une chose bien differente de l'observation<br />
scientifique: elIe clait surtout etre instinctive et proceder par l'imaginatioll, d'abord;'<br />
Gustave F1aubert, COlTfspondance (paris: Conard, 1926-1954) vol. 4, p. 230 (letter of<br />
June 6-7, 1853, to Louise Colet).<br />
58. rhe Letters '!fGustave Flaubert, 1830-1857, trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge,<br />
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980), p. 203 Oetter of December 23, 1853, to<br />
Louise Colet; see Madame Bovary part 2, chap. 9).<br />
59. ne Leiters '!fGustave Flaubert, 1857-1880, trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge,<br />
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 89 (September 29, 1866, to George<br />
Sand).<br />
60. Shelley, Poetical Works, ed. Thomas Hutchinson and G. M. Matthews (1905; rpt.<br />
London: Oxford University Press, 1970), pp. 350-351. Benjamin cites a translation<br />
by Brecht, from the latter's manuscript.<br />
61. <strong>The</strong> Collected TaleJ and Plays qf Nikolai Gogol) trans. Constance Garnett, rev. Leonard<br />
J. Kent (New Yo rk: Pantlleon, 1964), p. 78. See E. T. A. Hoffmann, "My Cousin's<br />
COlner Wm dow," in "<strong>The</strong> Golden Pot" and Other Tales) trans. Ritchie Robertson<br />
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 379-380.<br />
62. Hoffmann, "ne Golden Pot,"pp. 399-400.<br />
63. Ibid., p. 380.<br />
64. Hegel: <strong>The</strong> Letters, trans. Clark Butler ,md Christiane Seiler (Bloomington: hldiana<br />
University Press, 1984), p. 650.<br />
65. Allusion to Vr rgil's Aeneid, book 6, lines 296ff.: "Here starts the pathway to the<br />
waters of / Tartarean Acheron. A whirlpool thick / with sludge, its giant eddy seeth<br />
ing, vomits / all of its swirling sand into Cocytus;' Trans. Allen Mandelbaum (New<br />
Yo rk: Bantam, 1971), p. 142.<br />
66. Baudelaire, rhe Mirror '!f Art, trans. Jonathan Mayne (London: Phaidon, 1955),<br />
p. 283 ("<strong>The</strong> Salon of 1859," section 8).<br />
67. JeanJacques Rousseau, Reveries qf the Solitary WalkeJ trans. Peter France (New York:<br />
Penguin, 1979), p. 35.<br />
68. Valery, Poems in the Rough, trans. Hilary Corke (Princeton: Princeton University<br />
Press, 1969), p. 155.<br />
69. Balzac, Th e Wild ASJ's Skin, tran5. Herbert]. Hunt (London: Penguin, 1977), p. 108.<br />
70. Proust, Remembrance if Things Past, vol. I, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (New York:<br />
Random House, 1925), p. 596 (Within a Budding Grove).<br />
71. Proust, Remembrance qf ThingJ Past, vol. 2 (New York: Random House, 1932), p. 1084<br />
(<strong>The</strong> Past Recaptured, trans. FrederickA. Blossom) .<br />
N [On the <strong>The</strong>ory of Knowledge, <strong>The</strong>ory of Progress]<br />
In translating Convolute N, we have greatly benefited from the previous translation of<br />
this convolute, "Re the <strong>The</strong>ory of Knowledge, <strong>The</strong>ory of Progress;' by Leigh Hafrey and<br />
Richard Sieburth, originally published in Philosophical Forum (Fall-Wmter, 1983-1984),<br />
and reprinted in Benjamin: Philosoph)" J-listor)" AestheticJ, ed. Gary Smith (Chicago: Uni<br />
versity of Chicago Press, 1989), pp. 38-83.<br />
1. Karl Marx, Selected Wi1tingJ, ed. David McLellan (New Yo rk: Oxford University<br />
Press, 1977), p. 38.
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