Benjamin retreated into the Arcades Project when paid commissions collapsed

Evidence

Benjamin’s hopes rested on being paid enough by the Institute to be able to have a decent living and to complete his Passagen project. He had started work on it again in 1934, encouraged partly by a commission to write an article on the Prefect of Paris, Haussmann. This article fell through, partly because he took refuge in his Passagen studies, having no other short-term commissions which held out any prospect of early remuneration. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 211

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Benjamin’s failed Habilitation drove him into freelance criticism rather than academia; The Institute funded Benjamin’s Arcades Project and put him on salary from 1936. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 184; Benjamin’s unfinished arcades project preoccupied him for the rest of his life — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 611 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin’s failed Habilitation drove him into freelance criticism rather than academia; The Institute funded Benjamin’s Arcades Project and put him on salary from 1936. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 184; Benjamin’s unfinished arcades project preoccupied him for the rest of his life — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 611 (+1 more)