In an influenTial 1985 essay, fRedRic Jameson aRgues ThaT The nineteenth-­century poems of Charles Baudelaire foreshadow de-­ velopments in twentieth-­century styles, anticipating not only a high modernist “dissolution of the referent” but also a postmodernist “world of the image, of textual free-­play, the world of consumer so-­ ciety and its simulacra” (255–56). Jameson’s reading necessitate...

This article will contribute to elucidate the ambivalent Baudelaire’s relationship Rousseau, which he never ceased question thought and be confronted it. It find its starting point in agreement of two authors around idea a depraved mankind, then it strive re-evaluate term «nature», is not always negatively considered Baudelaire, covers deep reality his adversary have misunderstood. It’s thanks ...