Baudelaire

This edition brings together all the texts of Walter Benjamin about Charles Baudelaire — a key figure in the work of the German thinker. For Benjamin, Baudelaire is the main hero of the theater of "modernity," through whose figure, like through a prism, shines through a network of Benjamin's conceptual metaphors that reveal the characteristics of 19th-century culture: flâneur, allegory, spleen, bohemia, prostitute, bourgeois, fashion, crowd, etc. It is precisely in the cycle of essays on Baudelaire that Benjamin formulates the key ideas of his own cultural-historical anthropology, which has had a tremendous impact on contemporary notions of culture.