Debate with Adorno over the Baudelaire study

Paris / correspondence · 1938

Adorno’s criticism of Benjamin’s Baudelaire study makes visible a disagreement over relations between cultural detail and social explanation. Read this alongside the Adorno relationship in the People tab.

Source

Theodor W. Adorno; Walter Benjamin, Briefwechsel 1928–1940, haz. Henri Lonitz (1994).
Walter Benjamin, Das Paris des Second Empire bei Baudelaire (1938); Über einige Motive bei Baudelaire (1939).

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