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Fear and Precarious Life after Political Representation in Baudelaire
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Exploring the connections between public knowledge and public emotion, Chapter 8 considers the question of what counts as intelligible or “common” life in two lyrics from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal (1868) – ‘Correspondance’ and its re-reading in ‘Obsession’ – and a series of related texts by Paul de Man, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walter Benjamin. Bringing these texts together to produce a genealogy of modern fear, the chapter considers how a Benjaminian “pure poetry” or arresting expressionlessness retrieves and reenacts the differences between representational copies of fear and sensory responses to fear, disclosing a defensive motion in modernity between ideology and affective life.
Title: Fear and Precarious Life after Political Representation in Baudelaire
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Exploring the connections between public knowledge and public emotion, Chapter 8 considers the question of what counts as intelligible or “common” life in two lyrics from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal (1868) – ‘Correspondance’ and its re-reading in ‘Obsession’ – and a series of related texts by Paul de Man, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walter Benjamin.
Bringing these texts together to produce a genealogy of modern fear, the chapter considers how a Benjaminian “pure poetry” or arresting expressionlessness retrieves and reenacts the differences between representational copies of fear and sensory responses to fear, disclosing a defensive motion in modernity between ideology and affective life.
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