Charles Baudelaire

A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

Walter Benjamin, Harry Zohn

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Verso
01 February 2024

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.

By: Walter Benjamin
Translated by: Harry Zohn
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 158g
ISBN: 9781804290453
ISBN 10: 1804290459
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

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 Williams