Analysis of some aspects of the essay "Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire", by Walter Benjamin, bringing it close to some postulations on literary criticism that have their origin in his thesis on Friedrich Schlegel, The concept of art in the German Romanticism. It is our aim to show, in his late work about the French poet, the unfolding and culmination of positions formulated in his first thesis, in order to reveal what we believe to be the Benjaminian concept of Philosophy as a critical activity, that is, the strengthening of a reflexive game initiated by the work of art.
literary criticism; Walter Benjamin; Charles Baudelaire