Baudelaire founded a poetics of inner depth replacing outward exploration

Evidence

Poetics of depth. Baudelaire explorecl the early realms of this forrn of poetics. The vertiginous extension, not out into the world but toward the abysses man carries within himself. Western man essentially, that is, who at that moment in time governed the evolution of modernity and provided its rhythm. Inner space is as infinitely explorable as spaces of the earth. At the same time as he discovered the nurnerous varieties of the species man constituted, he felt that the alleged stability of knowledge led nowhere and that aIl he would ever know of himself was what he made others know. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 177

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrast of ‘poetics of depth’ (Baudelaire, inward) sets up the later rhizomatic/Relation poetics that Glissant opposes to it.
• XREF: connects to: Baudelaire defined modernity as half transient and half eternal — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 105; Outward practices create inner desires rather than express them — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 1068

Broader Connections

• Baudelaire defined modernity as half transient and half eternal #qualifies (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 105
• Outward practices create inner desires rather than express them #complicates (0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1068