A modernidade poética em Charles Baudelaire e Walter Benjamin

Abstract

This dissertations’s central theme is the presentation of the concept of modernity in Walter Benjamin since the reading of Charles Baudelaire’s poetic work. The objective of this reading to identify the true vision of reflexion is about modernity that was built between the modern and ancient categories. Through these connections, Benjamin could reflect the modern experience of the 19 th century. Reminding the fetish merchandising category, indispensable to na analysis of the 20 th century industrial society. Besides the themes allegory, time and history.