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

A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and work

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.

Author: Walter Benjamin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/22/2023
Series: Verso Classics
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.86h x 5.15w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9781804290453