In Search of Lost Community: The Literary Image between “Proust” and “Baudelaire” in Walter Benjamin’s Modernization Lament

This essay takes up the encounter between philosophy and literature through a reconsideration of Walter Benjamin’s remarks from “On Some Motifs in Baudelaire” about Henri Bergson’s Matière et mémoire as an attempt “[t]owering above” other ventures into Lebensphilosophie to “lay hold of the ‘true’ ex...

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Main Author: Karyn Ball
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-02-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/1/149