Benjamin reader of Marx: On the path of Das Passagen-Werk

Abstract

This paper proposes some reflections on Walter Benjamin’s quotations on Marx in Das Passagen-Werk. These notes explain the concept of work and the process of self-alienation of the worker as it analysis how labor relations are organized and how they produce values (use and exchange) in capitalist society. The aim is to explain the bourgeois psychology and alienation as a process extensive to all situations in life. Benjamin intends to understand how the economy finds expression in culture embodied in the architecture of Das Passagen-Werk, in the nineteenth century.