Dialectic of Seeing; Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

The Dialectics of Seeing is a book that can answer readings for various purposes: Firstly, it is a comprehensive intellectual biography of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. A second reading would be to follow Benjamin's concepts to understand the fundamental cultural transformations brought about by capitalism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and how these brought about the world we live in today. And finally, a book about seeing: How can we "see"? What distinguished Benjamin's vision from his contemporaries? What made his "way of seeing" different from the other Marxists, theologians, Christian and Jewish "redemptionists" by whom he was so influenced?