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.