Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk notes pursued contradictory research intentions simultaneously.

Evidence

If we examine Benjamin’s extensive notes for the Passagen-Werk, which served him both as a quarry and as a store for current shorter studies, to discover his intentions in his research on the nineteenth century, we find a multitude of statements which are hard to reconcile with each other. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 799

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Aragon’s 1926 work inspired Benjamin’s Passagen project as a modern mythology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 822; Aragon’s Le Paysan de Paris profoundly moved Benjamin and shaped the Passagen work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 822; Adorno demanded the Passagen preserve its theological content against Brechtian atheism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 780 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Aragon’s Le Paysan de Paris profoundly moved Benjamin and shaped the Passagen work #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 822
• Adorno demanded the Passagen preserve its theological content against Brechtian atheism. #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 780
• Aragon’s 1926 work inspired Benjamin’s Passagen project as a modern mythology #expands (0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 822
• Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk was structured as an awakening from the collective dream-world into history #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 858