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

Benjamin, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859841929 ISBN 13: 9781859841921

Publisher: Verso Books, 1997

Synopsis

Walter 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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About the Author

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator and philosopher. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. In 1940, he was in Spain, fleeing the Nazis and en route to the United States, when Franco's government cancelled his visa. Expecting repatriation, he took his own life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859841929
• ISBN 13: 9781859841921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192