Beibei Guan, Wayne Cristaudo

Baudelaire Contra Benjamin

A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baudelaire. Drawing upon the existential insights of Baudelaire it is also a critique of politicized aesthetics, and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering and emblematic figure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781498595094
• ISBN-10: 149859509X
• Artikelnr.: 60907170

Autorenporträt

Beibei Guan assistant professor of English at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One Political and Artistic Divides in Baudelaire.
Chapter Two The Diabolical Character of Modern Political Redemption.
Chapter Three Benjamin's Politicized Aesthetics.
Chapter Four The God's Eye View of the Historical Materialist.
Chapter Five Paris, Melancholy and Phantasmagoria: Economic Determinations
or a Human Soul-scape?
Chapter Six Flâneurs - Baudelaire's Urban Self-Makers, Benjamin's
Accomplices of Commodity Capitalism, and Redeeming Rag-pickers.
Chapter Seven Baudelaire's "Depraved" View of Women and Benjamin's
Redemption of Commodified Fallen Women.