Reading in the Ruins 1 Fragments of the Passagenwerk A meander through the Arcades project of Walter Benjamin The Arcades project went through many kinds of existence between 1927 and 1939. It never achieved a completed form. What remains are vast quantities of notes, images, quotes and citations; capable of being ordered and reordered in endlessly different constellations. This site is the ...

Walter Benjamin and Max Horkheimer: From utopia to redemption Ilan Gur-Ze ev The Critical Theory in the Frankfurt School underwent an impressive and substantial Odyssey from its origins in the early 1930s until it reached its climax in the 1960s, exhausting itself in the 1970s. This evolution can be interpreted in the light of the productive inner tensions between two tendencies: a positive ...