Fall Out of Redemption

Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvJoseph Acquisto

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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 embrace any of its secular equivalents, such as historical progress or redemption through art. Through a series of “interhistorical” readings that put literary and critical writers from the last 150 years in dialogue, Acquisto shows how these authors struggle to articulate both the metaphysical and esthetic consequences of attempting to move beyond a logic of salvation. Putting these writers into dialogue with Baudelaire highlights the way both literary and critical approaches attempt to articulate a third option between theism and atheism that also steers clear of political utopianism and Nietzschean estheticism. In the concluding section, Acquisto expands metaphysical and esthetic concerns to account also for the ethics inherent in the refusal of the logic of salvation, an ethics which emerges from, rather than seeking to redeem or cancel, a certain kind of nihilism.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-10-20
Mått148 x 228 x 8 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501326455

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Joseph Acquisto is Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Reading Baudelaire with Adorno: Subjectivity, Dissonance, Transcendence (Bloomsbury, 2023), Poetry's Knowing Ignorance (Bloomsbury, 2019), Proust, Music, and Meaning: Theories and Practices of Listening in the Recherche (2017), and Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature (2012).

Acquisto presents Baudelaire’s poetry as having been formed ‘both by and against Christianity.’ Baudelaire is both a modern and a theological. Although Christian tenets are present in his writing, he views the redemption as impossible. This rejection of a traditional aspect of Christian philosophy, Acquisto argues, demonstrates Baudelaire’s acceptance of a productive nihilism in which a shared human experience is possible without redemption … This is a challenging, thoughtful work, and Acquisto makes a convincing case for the shared experience of these authors outside faith and linear time. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.