Baudelaire Contra Benjamin A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism

Wayne Cristaudo, Beibei Guan — 2019

This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baudelaire. Drawing upon the existential insights of Baudelaire it is also a critique of politicized aesthetics, and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering and emblematic figure.