Baudelaire''s Bitter Metaphysics - Anti-Nihilist Readings By Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre

Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, Walter Benjamin, and Jean-Paul Sartre over their philosophical readings of Charles Baudelaire.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations in Citations
Chapter One: Baudelaire the Moralist
Chapter Two: Nietzsche's Problem of Socrates, or the Abyss of Absurdity
Chapter Three: Three Experiences of the Abyss: Fondane, Benjamin, Sartre
Chapter Four: "Le Gouffre" from Pascal to Baudelaire
Chapter Five: Geometric versus Poetic Method, or Baudelaire versus Descartes
Chapter Six: Fondane and Sartre Listen to the Objections of the Abyss
Chapter Seven: Cultural Nihilism: The Transvaluation of Experience
Chapter Eight: Of Turtles, Dogs, and Dandies: Metaphors for Splenetic, Poetic Trauma
Chapter Nine: Existential Failure: From Kierkegaard to Baudelaire
Chapter Ten: Restoring Memory to Experience: From Baudelaire to Bergson
Chapter Eleven: Repetition and Recurrence: The Meaning of a Moment
Chapter Twelve: Materialities of Urban Nihilism in Baudelaire's Paris
Chapter Thirteen: Ennui: The Religious Experience of Modernity
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Aaron Brice Cummings is adjunct instructor of history at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Brice Cummings
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2024
• EAN: 9781666961751
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-175-1
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets