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  • Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset
    Joseph Acquisto
    Examines how postwar French writers constitute the thinking subject and reshape its relation to the external social world.Joseph Acquisto analyzes the writings of three thinkers during and shortly after the Second World War who address the question of what it means to think, and what it means to constitute oneself as a thinking subject - at a time that seems to come 'after ever...
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    51,21 €

  • Reading Baudelaire with Adorno
    Joseph Acquisto
    Reading Baudelaire with Adorno examines Charles Baudelaire’s oeuvre - including verse poems, prose poems, and critical writings - in dialogue with the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, for whom the autonomy of the artwork critically resists any attempt to view it merely as a product of its socio-historic context. Joseph Acquisto analyzes Baudelairean duality through the lens ...
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  • Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France
    Joseph Acquisto
    This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, since pessimism as a worldview is not empirically verifiable, writers on pessimism shift the discussion to verisimilitude, opening up rich territory for cross-fertilization between philosophy and liter...
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    66,38 €

  • Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance
    Joseph Acquisto
    What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide? Poets make poems, but they also make meaning and craft a kind of learned and creative ignorance as they provide infinitely revisable answers to the question of what poetry is. That question of poetry’s definition invites broader ones about the relationship of poetry to other lived experience. Poetry thus implies something lik...
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    52,50 €

  • French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music
    Joseph Acquisto
    What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilable ’other’ against which the French symbolist poets crafted a new poetics? And why did music gradually disappear from early twentieth-century poetic discourse? These are among the questions Joseph Acquisto poses in his lively study o...
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    99,16 €

  • Proust, Music, and Meaning
    Joseph Acquisto
    This book is about reading Proust’s novel via philosophical and musicological approaches to 'modern' listening. It articulates how insights into the way we listen to and understand classical music inform the creation of literary meaning. It asks: are we to take at face value the ideas about art that the novel contains, or are those part of the fiction? Is there a difference bet...
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    121,95 €

  • The Fall Out of Redemption
    Joseph Acquisto
    Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations. Acquisto claims that Baudelaire inaugurates a new kind of amodern modernity by canceling the notion of salvation in his writing while also refusing to e...
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    66,09 €

  • Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature
    Joseph Acquisto
    Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures by Joseph Acquisto examines the many ways in which the castaway, particularly in the form of engagement with Robinson Crusoe, has been reinterpreted and appropriated in nineteenth through twenty-first century French literature. The book is not merely a literary history of the robinsonnade in France; ra...
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    64,22 €