Beibei Guan, Wayne Cristaudo

Baudelaire Contra Benjamin

A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism

• Gebundenes 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

• Politics, Literature, & Film
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9781498595070
• ISBN-10: 1498595073
• Artikelnr.: 56155141

Autorenporträt

Beibei Guan assistant professor of English at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. Wayne Cristaudo is professor of political science at Charles Darwin University.

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.