Thinking Poetry Philosophical Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Frenc

This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.

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Thinking Poetry

10.1057/9781137329288 - Thinking Poetry, Edited by Joseph Acquisto

10.1057/9781137329288 - Thinking Poetry, Edited by Joseph Acquisto

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Philosophical Approaches to Nineteenth-Century French Poetry

Edited by Joseph Acquisto

10.1057/9781137329288 - Thinking Poetry, Edited by Joseph Acquisto

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to McGill University - PalgraveConnect - 2013-06-09

Thinking Poetry

thinking poetry Copyright © Joseph Acquisto, 2013. All rights reserved.

Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-30363-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Acquisto, Joseph Thinking poetry : philosophical approaches to nineteenth-century French poetry / Joseph Acquisto, editor. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-137-30363-9 (alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. French poetry—19th century—History and criticism. 2. French literature— Philosophy. 3. Philosophy, French, in literature. I. Acquisto, Joseph. PQ439.T56 2013 841'.80915—dc23

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Introduction Joseph Acquisto 1

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Baudelaire through Kierkegaard: Art, Fallibility, and Faith Edward K. Kaplan

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Passages through Baudelaire: From Poetry to Thought and Back Catherine Witt

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Otherwise than Being: Levinassian Ethics in Victor Hugo’s “La Force des Choses” Bradley Stephens

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“Je est un autre”: Identity, Alterity, and Drug Use in Baudelaire and De Quincey Alain Toumayan

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“Poésie-boucherie”: Baudelaire’s Aesthetics and Ethics of Execution Ève Morisi

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Absolutely Absolute: Mallarmé, Blanchot, and the Absence de livre John McKeane

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Blank Phenomenality Claire Chi-ah Lyu

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Mallarmé’s Tragico-Poetic Modernism Emile Fromet de Rosnay

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Mallarmé and the Ontologization of