Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High CapitalismWalter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural ommentators and theorists of the 20th century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet, it was through his study of the social and cultural history of late-19th-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. |
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There is an astonishing place in Les Misérables where what goes on in the forest
appears as the archetype of mass existence . ' What had happened on this street
would not have astonished a forest . The tree trunks and the underbrush , the ...
There is an astonishing place in Les Misérables where what goes on in the forest
appears as the archetype of mass existence . ' What had happened on this street
would not have astonished a forest . The tree trunks and the underbrush , the ...
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But this crowd did exist for Baudelaire . Seeing it caused him every day to plumb
the depth of his failure , and this probably was ... This banner transfigured mass
existence . It shaded a threshold which separated the individual from the crowd .
But this crowd did exist for Baudelaire . Seeing it caused him every day to plumb
the depth of his failure , and this probably was ... This banner transfigured mass
existence . It shaded a threshold which separated the individual from the crowd .
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Later , when he abandoned one part of his bourgeois existence after another ,
the street increasingly became a place of refuge for him . But in strolling , there
was from the outset an awareness of the fragility of this existence . It makes a
virtue ...
Later , when he abandoned one part of his bourgeois existence after another ,
the street increasingly became a place of refuge for him . But in strolling , there
was from the outset an awareness of the fragility of this existence . It makes a
virtue ...
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