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Baudelaire Contra Benjamin - A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism (Paperback)
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Baudelaire Contra Benjamin - A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism (Paperback)
Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
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This book offers the first sustained argument against the
philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles
Baudelaire. More broadly, it is also a critique of politicized
aesthetics and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering
and emblematic figure. Cristaudo and Beibei argue that Baudelaire
was not mistaken in refusing to subject aesthetics to morality and
politics. Baudelaire's refusal was based on the recognition that
existential matters, such as sickness, evil, death, sexual longing,
melancholy, and beauty itself-all themes at the center of his
poetry-are by nature intrinsically supra-political. By contrast,
Benjamin's faith in political redemption, while breaking with the
enlightenment's faith in progress, nevertheless conforms to another
core element of faith of the enlightenment, via faith in the
ability of morals and politics to liberate humanity. The authors
make the case that Benjamin's understanding of politics is severely
deficient because it is not sufficiently versed in an understanding
of economics or the nature of class interests, and that Marx's own
theory of economics is fundamentally deficient and creates an
insurmountable problem for those deferring to a future industrial
society free from capitalism.
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