Benjamin came to see shock, not cheerfulness, as the substrate of modern lyrical experience.

Evidence

In On Some Motifs in Baudelaire', nothing remained of the themes of cheerfulness in the new architecture’ or passing on humanity to the masses'. The essay, considerably more disciplined and distinctive than the first, dealt mainly with the cost of modernity. Benjamin formulated the crucial question as how lyric poetry can have as its basis an experience [Erfahrung] for which the shock experience [Erlebnis] has become the norm’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 229

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Erfahrung from Erlebnis, the central conceptual pair for Benjamin’s Baudelaire reading.
• XREF: Links to the work-of-art essay’s earlier optimism and to the Frankfurt School’s later shock/aesthetic theory. — connects to: 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; Modern poetry is bought at the price of the aura’s disintegration in shock — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 863
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: 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; Modern poetry is bought at the price of the aura’s disintegration in shock — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 863

Broader Connections

• Modern poetry is bought at the price of the aura’s disintegration in shock #corroborates (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 863