Textual debaucheries and the fl√¢neur: prostitution as critique of bourgeois discourse in Walter Benjamin’s the arcades project (New Formations 54, Winter 2004)

Author: Janet McCabe

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McCabe argues that Benjamin demonstrates his deep ambivalence about bourgeois discourse in The Arcades Project. She suggests the feminist issues at the heart of the text, most particularly though a discussion of modernity and prostitution. She also discusses Paris in the nineteenth century, commenting on its character and the commercial activities housed within it.