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Her book, many years in the preparation, has a complex structure befitting a complex intention. Walter benjamin and the arcades project by susan buck morss. Contains biography, bibliography, research and manuscript material, links to related sites on american literature, transcendentalism, nature writing, natural history, environment. From parents, from teachers, from employers, from politicians, and from other promoters of ideas, ideals, and ideologies. Working with benjamins vast files of citations and commentary which contain a myriad of historical details from the dawn of consumer culture, buck morss ma.
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