Flaneur In The Era Of High Capitalism

In this paper, the main experience of a concept to study Walter Benjamin’s “A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism” is from Walter Benjamin and Baudelaire: the Flaneur. First of all, the author is not limited to the definition of the Flaneur, but starts from the background of the modernization of people’s experience and taste. When the positive thinking is to occupy people’s way of thinking, reflection and salvation have become an unlikely topic, and Perceptual knowledge is gradually replacing the tool rationality, rational living space has been compressed. In the distinction between experience and the taste, the two values are changing slowly, and the experience is slowly in failure. Walter Benjamin explicitly rejected the experience which is fixed, lack of imagination and interpretation of the results. He finds the dilemma that the language is facing on the radio and in the newspaper’ language, this kind of predicament stimulates his research about the interpretation of the meaning of the language. In Baudelaire there, Walter Benjamin found the wanderer’s way of life, the conflict and the crack between the information and the traditional experience exist in the modern space under the background of the city, and the typical taste of Flaneur obtains from the people and the public. Flaneur is like a schizophrenic patient, and exists in the unique scenes of city life. Secondly, starting from the study of Baudelaire Walter Benjamin, the close contact is led between the Baudelaire and Flaneur: the way of life, such as not having production goods, rejection of public life, lazy, paranoid, Bohemia’ way of life and so on, which are the typical characteristics of Flaneur. This marginalized indicates a non-rational way of life. The majority of the proletariat in the face value of impulse low performance is similar with Flaneur in the face of the temptation of goods. The crowd is a place for Baudelaire’s love, and it is also his most loved writing theme. Loneliness in the crowd is Baudelaire’ pleasure. He absorbs nourishment from the lonely crowd, irrigating the evil flower under the big city soil. In Baudelaire’ article and Walter Benjamin’s interpretation, it can be seen as typical of the Flaneur’s avatar.Finally, Lyric book in decline leads to alienation, the Flaneur is another group of alienation, the shocking experience of technology and uncertainty in the mass under the veil of perception make them gradually separated from the crowd. In the study of modern city space technology and language, and from the taste and the truth of art reach that Flaneur `non-rational way of observation is the key of the modernity taste against certain thinking, in the allegorical interpretation holds true. Various phenomena in the taste of modernization is city language, and it is also the city’s fable. The Flaneur` taste and the way of seeing provide a hermeneutic perspective for the city’s fable.