Talk:Flâneur

Mis-translation?
Are you sure by mentioning Baudelaire's term, 'botanizing on the pavement,' you're not mistakenly referencing a line of Benjamin's, usually translated as 'botanizing on the asphalt?' 132.208.26.118 20:03, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

"Jetting"
I am not convinced by "jetting". I think it needs explanation and without it the reference to jetting spoils a very good page. I have deleted it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.102.178.44 (talk) 10:41, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Gender
I feel like something should be added about the inherent masculinity of the flaneur, and the flaneur role of observing playing a role in perpetuating the notion of the "male gaze" and objectification of women. Especially in this time period. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.60.226.253 (talk) 21:11, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Seems to me being a flaneur is necessarily masculine -- a woman would be a flaneuse, no? The whole thing seems to be quite reminiscent of "window shopping" in the US -- see shopping. Timothy Perper (talk) 10:51, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Overhaul
I think this entry could use a bit of an overhaul, esp. an intro that lays out the use of the term as a literary type of the 19th c. and as a literary figure of inspiration in the 20th and beyond. Benjamin should be made much more central. His description of the flâneur in Baudelaire set the stage for most of the adaptations that would follow.
 * Agreed with the idea of an update to the page - also, the creation of a companion page on the literary figure of the badaud. I'll come back to this.Gksamsa15 (talk) 13:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok, I did a once through update adding an introduction and definition. This could still use more work. I think the reference to "botanizing on the pavement" is misattributed to Baudelaire (as noted below). There are lots more uses of the term that could be added. The existing ones could be cleaned up. Maybe cutting back some of Simmel et al. The discussion over the "invisible flâneuse" would be helpful as well. I'd also add a better section on the context of 19th c. Paris. Sometime... Gksamsa15 (talk) 10:28, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Nice college essay
This entry reeks of a good undergraduate or solid graduate essay. More power to the author, and I personally found it terrific. It clearly goes far beyond what is appropriate in an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shlishke (talk • contribs) 15:05, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

etymology?
i'm a little surprised that a section labeled etymology doesn't really offer an etymon for the word. what is the root of this word? oxford gives flaner, to stroll. but even that doesn't go far enough, and passes the buck: what, then is the etymology of the verb? at any rate, it would be useful, i think, to have the matter discussed in a section on etymology. -- chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.97.128.91 (talk) 11:31, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

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Another translation. I would say one that is better.
"The crowd is his domain, just as the air is the bird’s, and water that of the fish. His passion and his profession is to merge with the crowd. For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes. The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find, just as the picture-lover lives in an enchanted world of dreams painted on canvas. Thus the lover of universal life moves into the crowd as though into an enormous reservoir of electricity. He, the lover of life, may also be compared to a mirror as vast as this crowd: to a kaleidoscope endowed with consciousness, which with every one of its movements presents a pattern of life, in all its multiplicity, and the flowing grace of all the elements that go to compose life."

https://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Baudelaire_Painter-of-Modern-Life_1863.pdf

I wish I had the translator's name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A000:BFC0:21:1432:4CB9:846A:C1B8 (talk) 02:06, 6 September 2018 (UTC)