The Violence of Modernity
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The Violence of Modernity
| Full title | The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form |
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| Author | Debarati Sanyal |
| Published | 2006 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Debarati Sanyal’s academic study reading Baudelaire against the common view of him as an aesthete detached from politics — arguing that the formal properties of his work, especially irony, are themselves a way of engaging modern violence rather than retreating from it. |
Where I heard about it
- My own research — saved as the lone book among a set of tweets I collected on violence in the modern world, feeding A Violent World.
About this edition
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, in the Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society series.
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.