Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
'Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?' The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin’s studies of nineteenth-century Parisian culture as the apex of capitalist aesthetics. Thirteen scholars test Benjamin’s ideas about the centrality of Paris, formulated in the 1930s, from a variety of methodological perspectives.