"The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire" (; 1938) is one of a diptych of completed essays composed by Walter Benjamin. "Paris, Capital of 19th Century" is its sister essay.
Summary "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire" is organized into three sections: (1) La Bohème (2) The Flâneur (3) Modernity.
In a summary of "La Bohème", Michael Jennings writes: "For Benjamin, the bohemians were not primarily artistes starving in garrets-think of Rodolfo and Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme-but a motley collection of amateur and professional conspirators who imagined the overthrow of the regime of Napoleon III, France's self-elected emperor."
Michael Jennings wrote about "The Flâneur":
See also The Frankfurt School Marxist hermeneutics
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