On The Modern "walker"

In Walter Benjamin's A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism (one of the most famous part in his un-finishing work The Arcades Project), Charles Baudelaire was recreated as a modern figure "Flaneur",distinguished from the traditional concept such as "Voyager","Loiter" or "a Superfluous Man". It is a figure existed in the transitional stage,standing at the last scene of traditional times, which can be seen as the first scene of modern times.The theoretical discussion Walter Benjamin raised about "Flaneur" gave this figure a modern character, becoming a significant keyword to reveal the thinking process of many modern thinkers."Flaneur" could be physical and spiritual at the same time, having much in common with"Nomad" put by Gilles Deleuze. Faced with Capitalism which is "schizophrenic",despite their weakness in power, people who becoming "Flaneur" (represented by contemporary French theorists), chose in their own minds to be the independent existence and phenomenology believers trying to know the world with their senses. They inevitably became self-examinators and reflexive power in this social system,"product" produced by modern society. Therefore,their mind voyage fell into so-called "??????"(aporia).Started with the trace left by "Flaneur", this article drew the outline of the general characters in some western modern thinkers, analyzed the deep cause which led them being blocked in their thinking process and fell into so-called the "free fall of thoughts". Trying to fix this theoretical dilemma, this article demostrated the necessity that "Flaneur" exist as an eternal, reflexive figure accompanied by the modere era, pointed out a new way of living by a next-time "epoche": the literature world in the new-age, which is expanding without limitations by the text. Writers are losing their power and privilege, and critics are becoming more diverse. That could be a fleeing route for modern "Flaneurs".