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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism (Verso Classics)

By Walter Benjamin

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2023
ISBN
1804290459, 9781804290453
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
292 kB (299030 bytes)
Edition
Reissue
Pages
192\0
Time added
2023-12-30 13:26:53

Description

A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and workWalter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history.Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural history of the late nineteenth-century Paris, examined particularly in relation to the figure of the great Parisian lyric poet Charles Baudelaire, that Benjamin tested and enriched some of his core concepts and themes. Contained within these pages are, amongst other insights, his notion of the flaneur, his theory of memory and remembrance, his assessment of the utopian Fourier and his reading of the modernist movement.

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