The Writer of Modern Life
by Walter Benjamin
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Publisher:
Harvard University Press
| Genre: | Education |
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| Language: | en |
| Published: | 2006 |
| ISBN13: | 9780674022874 |
| ISBN10: | 0674022874 |
About the Book
In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850.