LUCAS MELO SOUZA

The research aims to elucidate and question Walter Benjamin's contribution to Critical Theory, based on his writings on Charles Baudelaire and the concepts of modernity, montage and allegory. The aim is, through the analysis of these concepts, to apprehend and expose (I) the diagnosis of modernity in the historical arc from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, (II) the transposition of montage techniques into theory and (III) the common ground that connects these techniques with that of allegorical composition in Baudelaire. At the intersection of these concepts, a constellation is set up in which the exposition of modernity depends on the montage procedure at the same time that this procedure – alongside that used by the French poet – finds its anchorage in the diagnosis of modernity.