{"product_id":"reading-baudelaire-with-adorno-dissonance-subjectivity-transcendence-paperback","title":"Reading Baudelaire with Adorno: Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Acquisto\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Baudelaire with Adorno\u003c\/i\u003e 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 of dissonance, arguing that the figure of the subject as a \"dissonant chord\" provides a gateway to Baudelaire's reconfiguration of subjectivity and objectivity in both esthetic and epistemological terms. He argues that Baudelaire's dissonance depends on older models of subjectivity in order to define itself via the negation of romantic conceptions of a unified lyric subject in favor of one constituted simultaneously as subject and object.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new understanding of subjectivity reconfigures our relationship to the work of art, which will always surpass conceptual attempts to know it fully. Acquisto offers a fresh take on some familiar themes in Baudelaire's work. Dissonant subjectivity in Baudelaire, rather than cancelling esthetic transcendence, points to a different way forward that depends on a new and dialectical relation of subject and object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Acquisto\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including \u003ci\u003eLiving Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France \u003c\/i\u003e(2021), \u003ci\u003ePoetry's Knowing Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2019), \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eProust, Music, and Meaning: Theories and Practices of Listening in the \u003c\/i\u003eRecherche (2017), \u003ci\u003eThe Fall Out of Redemption: Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in Baudelaire, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCioran, Fondane, Agamben, and Nancy\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2015), and \u003ci\u003eFrench Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2006).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704096158003,"sku":"9798765103012","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ivjhivzTkP9798765103012.webp?v=1763348202","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/reading-baudelaire-with-adorno-dissonance-subjectivity-transcendence-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}