Guan, Beibei,

Baudelaire contra Benjamin : a critique of politicized aesthetics and cultural Marxism / Beibei Guan, Wayne Cristaudo. - 1 online resource. - Politics, literature, and film .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Political and artistic divides in Baudelaire -- The diabolical character of modern political redemption -- Benjamin's politicized aesthetics -- The God's eye view of the historical materialist -- Paris, melancholy and phantasmagoria : economic determinations or a human soul-scape? -- Flâneurs & Baudelaire's urban self-makers, Benjamin's accomplices of commodity capitalism, and redeeming rag-pickers -- Baudelaire's 'depraved' view of women and Benjamin's redemption of commodified fallen women -- Conclusion.

9781498595087


Politics and literature.

841.8 GUA-B(TB)