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“Quite simply, the Passagen-Werk is one of the twentieth century’s great efforts at historical comprehension–some would say the greatest.” –T. J. Clark, author of The Painting of Modern Life The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin “To great writers,” Walter Benjamin once wrote, “finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years–”the theater,” as Benjamin called it, “of all my struggles and all my… More >> The Arcades Project