Baudelaire made Unsafe Again


	Baudelaire made Unsafe Again

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1-9-2008 4:31 PM

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<FONT size="3" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#333333"><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="-0" face="Times, Times New Roman, serif" color="black">	From Rimbaud right down to Patti Smith, avant-garde Modernists—encountering whose work has been described as "looking into the Abyss"—have turned to Baudelaire as a primary source of inspiration.  But over the past 150 years the abyss, in which bourgeois forms and norms are rendered meaningless, has become a refuge of sorts: Nihilism, like that which it negates, is ultimately a way of resolving existential tension. That's why it's important to revisit Baudelaire, for whom the vertigo experienced at the abyss's precipice is as terrifying as it is liberating. His tension-filled ideas about the nature of the self, of truth, and of good and evil transcend and shatter the comforting received notions of bourgeoisie and avant-garde alike. </FONT></FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hermenaut.com/a25.shtml">Pascal's abyss went with him, yawned in the air - / Everything's an abyss! Desire, acts, dreams, / Words! I have felt the wind of terror stream / Many a time across my standing hairŠ / My spirit, haunted now by vertigo, / Yearns for extinction, insensibility</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E6E7E1CE-BDDF-4971-82F5-9456B08BC029/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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