Baudelaire’s encounter with the crowd converts lived shock into poetic experience.
Evidence
Having been betrayed by these last allies of his, Baudelaire battled the crowdwith the impotent rage of someone fighting the rain or the wind. This is the nature of something lived through [Erlebnis] to which Baudelaire has given the weight of an experience [Erfahrung]. He indicated the price for which the sensation of the modern age may be had: the disintegration of the aura in the experience of shock. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 230
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes Erlebnis (something merely lived through) from Erfahrung (enduring experience) — a core Benjaminian terminological pair.
- XREF: connects to: Baudelaire founded a poetics of inner depth replacing outward exploration — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 177; Modernity turned shock into the norm of lived experience — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 861; Benjamin read Baudelaire’s grimace as the physiognomy of modern shock-absorbing perception — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 859
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Baudelaire founded a poetics of inner depth replacing outward exploration — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 177; Modernity turned shock into the norm of lived experience — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 861; Benjamin read Baudelaire’s grimace as the physiognomy of modern shock-absorbing perception — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 859
Broader Connections
- Baudelaire founded a poetics of inner depth replacing outward exploration
#complicates(0.72) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 177