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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 Williams

Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of

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      Publisher Verso Books
      Published 22 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9781804290453
      978-1804290453
      ISBN-10 1804290459
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      Biography Essays ELT & Literary Studies Literary theory Western philosophy from c 1800 Books by Walter Benjamin

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      Book 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.

      Trade Review
      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

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