
Charles Baudelaire
A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
Walter Benjamin(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-85984-192-1 (ISBN)
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Description
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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A series of brilliant insights ... a remarkable volume. * Times Educational Supplement * His analyses are inspired. His fragments about with insights. -- George Steiner Benjamin is indispensable as well as brilliant. -- Raymond WilliamsMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85984-192-1 (9781859841921)
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Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama.