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was a site in Paris occupied by workers from the national workshops in 1848, and gradually transformed into a sink of corruption. [J.L.] 485. See Marx, Capital, vol. 1, pp. 435-437 ("Modern Manufacture"). 486. Marcel Proust, Remembrance rfThings Past, vol. 1, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (New York: Random House, 1925), p. 126. Proust goes on, in this paragraph, to define evil in tenns of indifference to the suffering one causes. On the note by Anatole France mentioned by Benjamin at this juncture, see J17a,l. 487. Proust, Remembrance qfThings Past, voL 1, p. 62. 488. Benjamin, The Origin ofGennan Tragic Drama, p. 227. 5eeJ53a,4. 489. Benjamin later wrote Spekulant (speculator) over Miissiggiinger (idler) without striking the latter. [R.T] 490. Baudelaire, Selected Letters, p. 151. 491. Proust, Remembrance qfThings Past, vol. 1, p. 819. 492. Ibid., p. 490. For the passage on Meryon, seeJ2,1. 493. Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (trans. Howard), p. 5. Proust, Remembrance 0/ Things Past, vol. 2, The Captive, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (New York: Random House, 1929), pp. 645-646. 494. Proust, Remembrance ofTitings Past, vol. 2, p. 449. 495. Written by Benjamin in French. 496. JeanJacques Rousseau, Th e Corifessions, trans. J. M. Cohen (Baltimore: Penguin, 1954), p. 593. 497. Baudelaire as a Literar)' Critic, p. 116 (preface to "Berenice"). 498. Oswald Spengler, 17" Decline of the West, vol. 2, trans. Charles Francis Atkinson (New York: Knopf, 1928), pp. 101-102. 499. Ibiel., p. 104. 500. "Les Sept Vieillards" was written and published in 1859, as part of the series Fantomes parisiens. 501. Max Horkheirner, "Materialism and Morality," in Between Pllilosopll)l and Social Science, trans. G. Frederick Hunter, Matthew S. Kramer, and John Torpey (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993), p. 40. K [Dream City and Dream House, . . . lung] 1. Benjamin quotes here from Regis Mcssac, Le 'Vetectz've Novel" et l'iJif/uence de la pensee scientifique ( p aris, 1929), p. 420. [R.T.] 2. Eingedenken: Benjamin's coinage from the preposition eingedenk ("mindful of') and the verb gedenken ("bear in mind;' "remember"). This verbal noun has a more active sense than Erinnerung ("memory))). 3. For the relevant passage from Proust, see K8a,2. On "the darkness of the lived moment;' see Enlst Bloch, Tile Principle qf Hope, trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986), p. 290. 4. Fi;rderung which, in mining, has the sense of "drawing up," "hauling to the surface." Benjamin, like Heidegger, plays on the archaic verb wesen {lito be"} embedded in the Gewesenen ('what has been" ); he cites the being in what has been. Compare DO ,6, on the power of "distilling" the present as inmost essence of what has been. 5. Sigfried Giedion, Ballen ill Frankreic;' (Leipzig and Berlin, 1928), p. 3. [R.T.] 6. The reference is to Ambrose Bierce's short story ''An Occun-ence at Owl Creek Bridge," published in 1891 (part of Bierce's collection In the Midst a/ Lift) . Ben-
jarnin's phrase, in the second sentence of tlns entry, is "magnetopathische Experience." 7. Benjamin contrasts Proust's Erlebnis with our Elfohrung Cwas Proust . .. erlebte, das haben wiT . . . zu erfahren"). The fomler is, for Benjamin, an experience of the moment; the latter is long experience over time, the fruit of work and tradition. Erfohrungis formed out of multiple Erlebnissen (GS, vol. 1, p. 1183). Compare mla,3, andm2a,4. 8. Ernst Bloch, Heritage of Our Times, trans. Neville Plaice and Stephen Plaice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), p. 313. 9. Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique if Political Economy, trans. S. W Ryazanskaya (New York: International Publishers, 1970), p. 217. 10. Marx, CajJital, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New York: International Publishers, 1967), p. 354. 11. Ibid., pp. 359-60. 12. It is not certain whether Benjamin wrote Auswicklung here or Auswirkung. 13. Marcel Proust: A Selection from liis Miscellaneous WritingJ) trans. Gerard Hopkins (London: Allan Wingate, 1948), p. 233. 14. TImt "doleful something." 15. This letter from The odor Adorno to Benjamin has not been preserved. But see Adorno's Minima MoraliaJ section 29. [R.T.] In English in Minima MoraliaJ trans. E. F. N.Jephcott (London: Verso, 1974), p. 49. 16. The obelisk was originally erected in the Egyptian city of Luxor by Ramses II. In 1831, it was transplanted to the Place de Ie Goncorde in Paris. Under the name of the Place de la Revolution, this square had served as the site of guillotining from 1793 to 1795. 17. Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs, trans. Joseph L. Blamire (1889; rpt. Milpitas, Calif.: Atlantean Press, 1991), p. 151. The sleeping town in question is actually Melcombe Regis, next to Weymouth, on the coast of England. 18. C. G. Jung, "Analytic Psychology and Weltanschauung;' trans. R. F. C. Hull, Collected Works, vol. 8 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960), p. 376. 19. Jung, Modern Man in Search oj" a Soul, trans. W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934), pp. 110; 228. 20. Ibid., p. 241. 21. Aldous Huxley, Beyond the Mexique Bay (London: Ghatto and Windus, 1934), pp. 56, 60. 22. This passage does not appear in the English-language edition of Huizinga, The 1iVtzning of the Middle Ages (1949; rpt. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor, 1954). 23. The odor Reik, Surpn'se and the Ps),cllO-Analyst: On the C01y'ecture and Comprehension qf Unconscious Proasses, trans. Mal'garet M. Green (New Yo rk: Dutton, 1937), pp. 129- 131. "Memory" here translates Gediichtnis; "reminiscence" translates Erinnerung. 24. Ibid., p. 130. "Experience" here translates Erlebnis. 25. Marcel Proust, Remembrance qfThings Past) vol. 2 (New York: Random House, 1932), p. 619 (17" CajJtiue, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff). 26. Proust, Remembrance qfThinp Past) voL 1, trans. G. K. Scott Moncrieff (New York: Random House, 1925), pp. 33-34 (Swann 's Woy) . Moncrieff translates la memoire volontaire here as "an exercise of dle '\JVill." 27. Ibid., p. 5. 28. Ibid., p. 779 (The Guerilla"tes Woy). 29. Proust, Remembrance o/ ThingJ Past, vol. 2, pp. 1030-1031 (77" Past RecajJtured, trans.
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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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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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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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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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concentration has caused him to red
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am convinced that, if the syllables
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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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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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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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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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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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Alexandre Dumas pere, 1855. Photo b
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age of disonler and viee nUlS agt"O
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On Victor Hugo: He placed the ballo
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11,e novels of George Sand led to a
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arm the masses. Cited in eh. Paris
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m [Idleness] Noteworthy conjunction
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a product of chance, and have about
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[Ecole Poly technique ] On commerce
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What is une psychi?19 . The city ma
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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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Thomasius, Vam Recht des Schlafi un
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information bureaus and detective a
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superstition. Thus in gambler and p
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allow our steel furnishings of toda
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essence of the images which the dre
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Gaslight in Baudelaire Passage de l
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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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various reasons. Retrospectively, h
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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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tion between the jack of hearts and
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In English in The Complete Time, p.
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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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56. Ibid., pp. 198-199. 57. Ibid.,
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15. Honore de Balzac, Eugenie Grand
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"workshop" and "graverll or 'burin"
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(destroyed in 1919) took in a numbe
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49. Proust, A la Recherche du temj}
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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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Escholier, Raymond, 225, 429, 442,
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Hallays-Dabot, Victor, 695, 706, 78
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Pouson du Te rrail, Pierre-Alexis,
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was a site in Paris occupied by workers from the national workshops in 1848, and<br />
gradually transformed into a sink of corruption. [J.L.]<br />
485. See Marx, Capital, vol. 1, pp. 435-437 ("Modern Manufacture").<br />
486. Marcel Proust, Remembrance rfThings Past, vol. 1, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (New<br />
York: Random House, 1925), p. 126. Proust goes on, in this paragraph, to define<br />
evil in tenns of indifference to the suffering one causes. On the note by Anatole<br />
France mentioned by Benjamin at this juncture, see J17a,l.<br />
487. Proust, Remembrance qfThings Past, voL 1, p. 62.<br />
488. Benjamin, <strong>The</strong> Origin ofGennan Tragic Drama, p. 227. 5eeJ53a,4.<br />
489. Benjamin later wrote Spekulant (speculator) over Miissiggiinger (idler) without striking<br />
the latter. [R.T]<br />
490. Baudelaire, Selected Letters, p. 151.<br />
491. Proust, Remembrance qfThings Past, vol. 1, p. 819.<br />
492. Ibid., p. 490. For the passage on Meryon, seeJ2,1.<br />
493. Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (trans. Howard), p. 5. Proust, Remembrance 0/ Things<br />
Past, vol. 2, <strong>The</strong> Captive, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff (New York: Random House,<br />
1929), pp. 645-646.<br />
494. Proust, Remembrance ofTitings Past, vol. 2, p. 449.<br />
495. Written by Benjamin in French.<br />
496. JeanJacques Rousseau, Th e Corifessions, trans. J. M. Cohen (Baltimore: Penguin,<br />
1954), p. 593.<br />
497. Baudelaire as a Literar)' Critic, p. 116 (preface to "Berenice").<br />
498. Oswald Spengler, 17" Decline of the West, vol. 2, trans. Charles Francis Atkinson<br />
(New York: Knopf, 1928), pp. 101-102.<br />
499. Ibiel., p. 104.<br />
500. "Les Sept Vieillards" was written and published in 1859, as part of the series<br />
Fantomes parisiens.<br />
501. Max Horkheirner, "Materialism and Morality," in Between Pllilosopll)l and Social<br />
Science, trans. G. Frederick Hunter, Matthew S. Kramer, and John Torpey (Cambridge,<br />
Mass.: MIT Press, 1993), p. 40.<br />
K [Dream City and Dream House, . . . lung]<br />
1. Benjamin quotes here from Regis Mcssac, Le 'Vetectz've Novel" et l'iJif/uence de la<br />
pensee scientifique ( p aris, 1929), p. 420. [R.T.]<br />
2. Eingedenken: Benjamin's coinage from the preposition eingedenk ("mindful of') and<br />
the verb gedenken ("bear in mind;' "remember"). This verbal noun has a more<br />
active sense than Erinnerung ("memory))).<br />
3. For the relevant passage from Proust, see K8a,2. On "the darkness of the lived<br />
moment;' see Enlst Bloch, Tile Principle qf Hope, trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen<br />
Plaice, and Paul Knight (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986), p. 290.<br />
4. Fi;rderung which, in mining, has the sense of "drawing up," "hauling to the surface."<br />
Benjamin, like Heidegger, plays on the archaic verb wesen {lito be"} embedded<br />
in the Gewesenen ('what has been" ); he cites the being in what has been. Compare<br />
DO ,6, on the power of "distilling" the present as inmost essence of what has<br />
been.<br />
5. Sigfried Giedion, Ballen ill Frankreic;' (Leipzig and Berlin, 1928), p. 3. [R.T.]<br />
6. <strong>The</strong> reference is to Ambrose Bierce's short story ''An Occun-ence at Owl Creek<br />
Bridge," published in 1891 (part of Bierce's collection In the Midst a/ Lift) . Ben-
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