Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Political and artistic divides in Baudelaire: an aesthetic of evil -- The diabolical character of modern political redemption -- Benjamin's politicized reading ofBaudelaire -- 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.
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