Benjamin’s late essays all fed his unfinished Arcades project on the nineteenth century

Evidence

The discussion was carried on in letters, in the form of essays, and verbally (at a series of meetings sponsored by the Institute, the first of which took place in Paris at the beginning of 1936, and the last at about the end of 1937 or the beginning of 1938 in San Remo). All of Benjamin’s longer studies in the second half of the 1930s were published in the ZfS, and were, to a greater or lesser extent, part of his work on the Passagen. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 216

Categorization

• SHARE: Only someone tracking the Benjamin-Adorno-ZfS triangle would care that the last planning meeting was in San Remo, 1937-38.
• XREF: connects to: Benjamin retreated into the Arcades Project when paid commissions collapsed — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 211; Benjamin’s unfinished arcades project preoccupied him for the rest of his life — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 611
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin retreated into the Arcades Project when paid commissions collapsed — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 211; Benjamin’s unfinished arcades project preoccupied him for the rest of his life — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 611

Broader Connections

• Benjamin’s unfinished arcades project preoccupied him for the rest of his life #expands (0.93) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 611